Proverbs 18:8New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts of the body.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— The words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— The words of a whisperer are as dainty, morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— The words of a tale-bearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— The words of a talebearer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— The words of a tattler, are dainties, they, therefore go down into the chambers of the inner man.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— The words of a tale-bearer [are] as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down [to] the inner parts of the heart.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— 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.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— The wordes of a tale bearer are as flatterings, and they goe downe into the bowels of the belly.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— The words of a tale bearer [are] as wounds, and they goe downe into the innermost parts of the belly.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— The words of a slothful man bring evil to him, and they cause him to go down into the inner chambers of Sheol.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Fear casts down the slothful; and the souls of the effeminate shall hunger.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— The words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. |
The words
1697 {1697} Primeדָּבָרdabar{daw-baw'}
From H1696; a word; by implication a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially a cause.
of a talebearer
5372 {5372} Primeנִרְגָןnirgan{neer-gawn'}
From an unused root meaning to roll to pieces; a slanderer.
[ are] as wounds,
3859 {3859} Primeלָהַםlaham{law-ham'}
A primitive root; properly to burn in, that is, (figuratively) to rankle.
z8693 <8693> Grammar
Stem - Hithpael (See H8819) Mood - Participle (See H8813) Count - 139
and they
x1992 (1992) Complementהֵםhem{haym}
Masculine plural from H1931; they (only used when emphatic).
go down
3381 {3381} Primeיָרַדyarad{yaw-rad'}
A primitive root; to descend (literally to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively to fall); causatively to bring down (in all the above applications).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
into the innermost parts
2315 {2315} Primeחֶדֶרcheder{kheh'-der}
From H2314; an apartment (usually literally).
of the belly.
990 {0990} Primeבֶּטֶןbeten{beh'-ten}
From an unused root probably meaning to be hollow; the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything. |
Proverbs 18:8
_ _ (Compare Proverbs 16:28).
_ _ as wounds — not sustained by the Hebrew; better, as “sweet morsels,” which men gladly swallow.
_ _ innermost ... belly — the mind, or heart (compare Proverbs 20:27-30; Psalms 22:14). |
Proverbs 18:8
_ _ 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 said to be, 1. Like as when men are wounded (so the margin reads it); they pretend to be very much affected with the miscarriages of such and such, and to be in pain for them, and pretend that it is with the greatest grief and reluctance imaginable that they speak of them. They look as if they themselves were wounded by it, whereas really they rejoice in iniquity, are fond of the story, and tell it with pride and pleasure. Thus their words seem; but they go down as poison into the innermost parts of the belly, the pill being thus gilded, thus sugared. 2. As wounds (so the text reads it), as deep wounds, deadly wounds, wounds in the innermost parts of the belly; the venter medius vel infimus — the middle or lower belly, the thorax or the abdomen, in either of which wounds are mortal. The words of the tale-bearer wound him of whom they are spoken, his credit and interest, and him to whom they are spoken, his love and charity. They occasion sin to him, which is a wound to the conscience. Perhaps he seems to slight them, but they would insensibly, by alienating his affections from one he ought to love. |
Proverbs 18:8
They go — They wound mortally. |
Proverbs 18:8
The words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the (f) innermost parts of the belly.
(f) They are soon believed and enter most deeply. |
- words:
Proverbs 12:18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.
Proverbs 16:28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs 26:20-22 Where no wood is, [there] the fire goeth out: so where [there is] no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. ... The words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
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.
Psalms 52:2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalms 64:3-4 Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words: ... That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
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- innermost parts:
- Heb. chambers
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