Proverbs 18:8

WEB

⁸The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

KJV

⁸The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

BSB

⁸The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.

FBV

⁸Listening to gossip is like gulping down bites of your favorite food—they go deep down inside you.

Extra References

Proverbs 16:28

²⁸A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 12:18

¹⁸There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Leviticus 19:16

¹⁶“‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life^[+] of your neighbor. I am the LORD.

²⁰For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down. ²¹As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife. ²²The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

Psalms 64:3-4

³who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words, ⁴to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

Psalms 52:2

²Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.