Proverbs 18:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

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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 perverse person spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 12:18

Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Leviticus 19:16

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.

Psalm 52:2

you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

Proverbs 18:7

The mouths of fools are their ruin, and their lips a snare to themselves.

Proverbs 18:9

One who is slack in work is close kin to a vandal.