Good News Translation
You can blow on a spark to make it glow, or you can spit on it to put it out. Either way, you do it with your mouth.

New Revised Standard Version
If you blow on a spark, it will glow; if you spit on it, it will be put out; yet both come out of your mouth.

Contemporary English Version
Blow on a spark and it bursts into flames; spit on a spark and it dies out. In the same way, your words can either heat up an argument or make it cool down.

New American Bible
If you blow on a spark, it turns into flame, if you spit on it, it dies out; yet both you do with your mouth!

Douay-Rheims Bible
For as the wood of the forest is, so the fire burneth, and as a man's strength is, so shall his anger be, and according to his riches he shall increase his anger.

For as the wood of the forest is, so the fire burneth, and as a man's strength is, so shall his anger be, and according to his riches he shall increase his anger.

Sirach 28:10
Refrain from strife, and thou shalt diminish thy sins.

Sirach 28:11
For a passionate man kindleth strife, and a sinful man will trouble his friends, and bring in debate in the midst of them that are at peace.

Sirach 28:13
A hasty contention kindleth a fire and a hasty quarrel sheddeth blood and a tongue that beareth witness bringeth death.

Sirach 28:14
If thou blow the spark, it shall burn as a fire: and if thou spit upon it, it shall be quenched: both come out of the mouth.