The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
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Gill's Exposition
The words of a talebearer are as wounds,.... Or rather they are wounds; they wound the credit and reputation of the person of whom the tale is told; they wound the person to whom it is told, and…
The first verse speaks of the immediate, the others of the remote, results of the “fool’s” temper. First, “contention,” then “strokes” or blows, then “destruction,” and last, “wounds.” Pro 18:8 Wounds…
Matthew Henry
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…
Cambridge Bible
talebearer Rather, whisperer, R.V., secret calumniator, as in Pro 16:28; bilinguis, Vulg.
wounds Rather, dainty morsels, R.V.; so greedily do men swallow down and retain them. This proverb occurs…
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