Proverbs 26:22
A talebearers wordes are lyke men that strike with hammers, and they pearse the inwarde 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
21As coles kindle heate, and wood the fire: euen so doth a brawling felowe stirre vp variaunce.
23Burning lippes and a wicked heart, are like a potsharde couered with siluer drosse.
Cross References
Proverbs 18:8The wordes of a slaunderer are very woundes, and go through vnto the innermost partes of the body.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:21-23
20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. 21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. 22 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. Contention is as a fire; it heats the spirit, burns up all that is good, and puts families and societies into a flame. Now here we are told how that fire is commonly kindled and kept burning, that we may avoid the occasions… Read the whole commentary →