you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
Proverbs 18:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, And they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The words of a whisperer or talebearer are as dainty morsels; they go down into the innermost parts of the body. American Standard Version (1901) The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts. Common English Bible The words of gossips are like choice snacks; they go down to the inmost parts. Catholic Public Domain Version The words of the double-tongued seem simple. And they reach even to the interior of the gut. Fear casts down the lazy, but the souls of the effeminate shall go hungry. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The words of the double tongued are as if they were harmless: and they reach even to the inner parts of the bowels. Fear casteth down the slothful: and the souls of the effeminate shall be hungry. |
you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand idly by when the blood of your neighbor is at stake: I am the Lord.