Proverbs 13:10 Only by pride comes contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
‘Only by pride comes contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.’ By pride comes contention and strife between men and nations, but those who hear counsel will act wisely and suppress it.
It is as impossible for contention to start where there is no contentious person as it is for fire to start and continue without coals of fire and fuel (26:21).
‘Contention’ – Four examples of pride causing contention: Korah (Num. 16:1-50); the men of Ephraim (Jdg. 12:1-6); Rehoboam (1Kin. 12:1-33) and the apostles (Luke 22:24).
Contention (strife) is one of the cut-off sins from the fruit of the flesh of Galatians 5:19-21 It is the Greek word eritheia, “strife” (Gal. 5:20; 2Cor. 12:20; Php. 2:3; Jas. 3:14, 16); “contention” (Php. 1:16; Rom. 2:8) and can be anything from disputations; jangling; strife about words; angry contentions; contest for superiority or advantage; strenuous endeavour to equal or pay back in kind the wrongs done to one.
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