Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: 2 they go down into a person’s innermost parts. 1
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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 destruction, 2 and his lips are a snare to his soul. 1
9One who is slack in his work 2 is brother to him who is a master of destruction. 1
Cross References
Psalms 52:2Your tongue plots destruction, 2 like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 1
Proverbs 12:18There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, 2 but the tongue of the wise heals. 1
Proverbs 26:20For lack of wood a fire goes out. 2 Without gossip, a quarrel dies down. 1
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 →