Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
Berean Standard Bible
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 ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
9Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.
Cross References
Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Proverbs 12:18Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 26:20Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict 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 →