Proverbs 18:8
The wordes of a slaunderer are very woundes, and go through vnto the innermost partes of the body.
Bible (Bishops')
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 fooles mouth is his owne destruction, and his lippes are the snare for his owne soule.
9Who so is slouthfull in his labour, is the brother of hym that is a waster.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:18A slaunderous person pricketh lyke a sworde: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.
Proverbs 26:20Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: euen so where the talebearer is taken away, there the strife ceasseth.
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 →