Proverbs 18:8
The words of a whisperer are as wounds, and they go down indeed into the innermost parts of the body.
Leeser Tanakh
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 the fool is a destruction to himself, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
9He also that showeth himself slothful in his work is a brother to the destroyer.
Cross References
Psalms 52:2(52:4) Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs, like a sharpened razor, thou worker of deceit.
Proverbs 12:18There is some one that useth words [which are] like the thrusts of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is healing.
Proverbs 26:20Where there is no wood, the fire goeth out: so where there is no whisperer, strife is silenced.
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 →