Proverbs 17:14Berean Standard Bible
To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
Related Verses
Genesis 6:17
And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
Genesis 7:6
Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
Genesis 7:7
And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:10
And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.