Proverbs 18:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

Proverbs 18:8 —

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Cross-References

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Leviticus 19:16
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.
Proverbs 16:28
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 26:20-22
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. …
Psalms 64:3-4
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: …

Topics

Accusation, False Backbiting Busybody Gossip Railing Slander Speaking Talebearer

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. (Compare Pr 16:28). as wounds--not sustained by the Hebrew; better, as “sweet morsels,” which men gladly swallow. innermost ... belly--the mind, or heart (compare Pr 20:27-30; Psa 22:14).