Proverbs 18:8
The words of the double tongued are as if they were harmless: and they reach even to the inner parts of the bowels. Fear casteth down the slothful: and the souls of the effeminate shall be hungry.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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
7The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.
9He that is loose and slack in his work, is the brother of him that wasteth his own works.
Cross References
Psalms 52:2They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that doth good.
Proverbs 12:18There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 26:20When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease.
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 →