Proverbs 18:8
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
In Context
7A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
9He also that is slack in his work is brother to him that is a destroyer.
Cross References
Psalms 52:2Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Proverbs 12:18There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 26:20For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 18:7-8
6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. 7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul. Solomon has often shown what mischief bad men do to others with their ungoverned tongues; here he shows what mischief they do to themselves. 1. They embroil themselves in quarrels: A fool's lips, without any cause or call, enter into contention, by advancing foolish notions which others find themselves obliged to oppose, and so a quarrel is begun, or by giving… Read the whole commentary →