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