Proverbs 18:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 12:18

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand forth against the life of your neighbor: 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

A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to himself.

Proverbs 18:9

He who is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.