New Revised Standard Version
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

Contemporary English Version
There is nothing so delicious as the taste of gossip! It melts in your mouth.

New American Bible
The words of a talebearer are like dainty morsels: they sink into one’s inmost being.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The words of a talebearer are as it were simple, but they reach to the innermost parts of the belly.

The words of a talebearer are as it were simple, but they reach to the innermost parts of the belly.

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Proverbs 18:8 The words of the double tongued are as if they were harmless: and they reach even to the inner parts of the bowels. Fear casteth down the slothful: and the souls of the effeminate shall be hungry.

2 Samuel 20:9,10 And Joab said to Amasa: God save thee, my brother. And he took Amasa by the chin with his right hand to kiss him. . . .

Ezekiel 33:31 And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Luke 22:47,48 As he was yet speaking, behold a multitude; and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them and drew near to Jesus, for to kiss him. . . .