Proverbs 18:8 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ 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)

⁸ The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts.

Common English Bible

⁸ The words of gossips are like choice snacks; they go down to the inmost parts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ 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.

Proverbs 18:8 Cross References

Proverbs 16:28

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Proverbs 12:18

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Leviticus 19:16

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am the Lord.

Psalm 52:2

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Proverbs 18:7

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Proverbs 18:9

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.