Proverbs 18:8
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Updated King James 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
7A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
9He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great destroyer.
Cross References
Psalms 52:2The tongue devises evil; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Proverbs 12:18There is that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 26:20Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.
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 →