Proverbs 18:8 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

⁸ The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person's innermost parts.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

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 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 52:2

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

Proverbs 12:18

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

Proverbs 16:28

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

Proverbs 18:7

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

Proverbs 18:9

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

Leviticus 19:16

*'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.