Proverbs 18:8
Listening to gossip is like gulping down bites of your favorite food—they go deep down inside you.
Free Bible 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
7Stupid people are caught out by what they say; their own words trap them.
9Laziness and destruction are brothers.
Cross References
Psalms 52:2You plot to make people suffer; your words cut like a sharp razor, you liar!
Proverbs 12:18Some people's hasty words cut like a knife, but the words of the wise bring healing.
Proverbs 26:20Without wood, the fire goes out; and without gossips, arguments stop.
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 →