8The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. …
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8)Tale-bearers are those who secretly carry stories from house to house, which perhaps have some truth in them, but are secrets not fit to be told, or are basely misrepresented, and false colours put upon them, and are all told with design to blast men’s reputation, to break their friendship, to make mischief between relations and neighbours, and set them at variance. Now the words of such are here…
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