Proverbs 18:8
People enjoy listening to what gossips say like [SIM] they enjoy tasty food; they accept what gossips tell them like [MET] they swallow tasty food.
Translation for Translators
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
9People who are lazy while they work are just as bad as [IDM] those who destroy things.
Cross References
Psalms 52:2All during the day you plan to get rid of others; what you say [MTY] injures others like a sharp razor [SIM], and you are always deceiving others.
Proverbs 12:18What some people say hurts people badly, as much as [SIM] a sword can; but what wise people say ◄heals others’ souls/comforts others►.
Proverbs 26:20If there is no more firewood to put on the fire, the fire will go out; similarly [SIM], if there are no people who ◄gossip/tell people things that are not true►, quarreling will end.
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 →