Proverbs 18:8

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

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

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

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

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

*'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people; neither shall you stand against the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.