Proverbs 18:8
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Belly Body Choice Dainty Delicious Evil Food Gossip Heart Inmost Inner Innermost Morsels Neighbour Parts Person's Self-Inflicted Sweet Talebearer Tale-Bearer Whisperer Words Wounds
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Belly Body Choice Dainty Delicious Evil Food Gossip Heart Inmost Inner Innermost Morsels Neighbour Parts Person's Self-Inflicted Sweet Talebearer Tale-Bearer Whisperer Words Wounds
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English Standard Version
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

New American Standard Bible
The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

King James Bible
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A gossip's words are like choice food that goes down to one's innermost being.

International Standard Version
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels as they descend to the innermost parts of the body.

NET Bible
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down into the person's innermost being.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The words of a lazy man cast him into evil, and they lower him to the inner chamber of Sheol.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The words of a gossip are swallowed greedily, and they go down into a person's innermost being.

King James 2000 Bible
The words of a talebearer are like tasty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

American King James Version
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

American Standard Version
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Darby Bible Translation
The words of a talebearer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

English Revised Version
The words of a whisperer are as dainty, morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

Webster's Bible Translation
The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

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

Young's Literal Translation
The words of a tale-bearer are as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down to the inner parts of the heart.
Lexicon
The words
dabar  (daw-baw')
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
of a talebearer
nirgan  (neer-gawn')
a slanderer -- talebearer, whisperer.
are as wounds
laham  (law-ham')
to burn in, i.e. (figuratively) to rankle -- wound.
and they go down
yarad  (yaw-rad')
to descend; causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications)
into the innermost parts
cheder  (kheh'-der)
an apartment (usually literal) -- (bed) inner)chamber, innermost(-ward) part, parlour, + south, within.
of the belly
beten  (beh'-ten)
the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything -- belly, body, + as they be born, + within, womb.
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