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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Proverbs 18:8 Catholic Bible: Gossip is so tasty--how we love to swallow it! </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/proverbs/18-8.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/proverbs/18-8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/proverbs/18-8.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/proverbs/1.htm">Proverbs</a> > <a href="/gntd/proverbs/18.htm">Chapter 18</a> > Verse 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../proverbs/18-7.htm" title="Proverbs 18:7">◄</a> Proverbs 18:8 <a href="../proverbs/18-9.htm" title="Proverbs 18:9">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/proverbs/18.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/proverbs/18.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Gossip is so tasty--how we love to swallow it! <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/proverbs/18.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/proverbs/18.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />There's nothing so delicious as the taste of gossip! It melts in your mouth. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/proverbs/18.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />The words of a talebearer are like dainty morsels: they sink into one’s inmost being. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/proverbs/18.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="hdg">words</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/12-18.htm">Proverbs 12:18</a> There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/16-28.htm">Proverbs 16:28</a> A perverse man stirreth up quarrels: and one full of words separateth princes.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/26-20.htm">Proverbs 26:20-22</a> When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/19-16.htm">Leviticus 19:16</a> Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/52-2.htm">Psalm 52:2</a> All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/64-3.htm">Psalm 64:3,4</a> For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing, . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/proverbs/18.htm">The Selfishness of the Unfriendly</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">7</span>The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul. <span class="reftext">8</span><span class="highl">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.</span><span class="reftext">9</span>He that is loose and slack in his work, is the brother of him that wasteth his own works.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/19-16.htm">Leviticus 19:16</a></span><br />Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/18-7.htm">Proverbs 18:7</a></span><br />The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/18-9.htm">Proverbs 18:9</a></span><br />He that is loose and slack in his work, is the brother of him that wasteth his own works.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/26-22.htm">Proverbs 26:22</a></span><br />The words of a talebearer are as it were simple, but they reach to the innermost parts of the belly.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/proverbs/13-25.htm">Belly</a> <a href="/proverbs/17-22.htm">Body</a> <a href="/proverbs/10-20.htm">Choice</a> <a href="/job/33-20.htm">Dainty</a> <a href="/proverbs/9-17.htm">Delicious</a> <a href="/proverbs/17-20.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/proverbs/16-26.htm">Food</a> <a href="/proverbs/16-28.htm">Gossip</a> <a href="/proverbs/18-2.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/psalms/139-13.htm">Inmost</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-27.htm">Inner</a> <a href="/psalms/128-3.htm">Innermost</a> <a href="/psalms/147-17.htm">Morsels</a> <a href="/proverbs/17-18.htm">Neighbour</a> <a href="/psalms/139-15.htm">Parts</a> <a href="/exodus/22-11.htm">Person's</a> <a href="/proverbs/26-22.htm">Self-Inflicted</a> <a href="/proverbs/16-24.htm">Sweet</a> <a href="/proverbs/11-13.htm">Talebearer</a> <a href="/proverbs/16-28.htm">Tale-Bearer</a> <a href="/proverbs/16-28.htm">Whisperer</a> <a href="/proverbs/18-4.htm">Words</a> <a href="/proverbs/12-18.htm">Wounds</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/proverbs/18-20.htm">Belly</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-27.htm">Body</a> <a href="/proverbs/21-20.htm">Choice</a> <a href="/proverbs/23-6.htm">Dainty</a> <a href="/proverbs/26-22.htm">Delicious</a> <a href="/proverbs/19-23.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/proverbs/18-21.htm">Food</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-19.htm">Gossip</a> <a href="/proverbs/18-11.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-27.htm">Inmost</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-27.htm">Inner</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-27.htm">Innermost</a> <a href="/proverbs/23-8.htm">Morsels</a> <a href="/proverbs/18-17.htm">Neighbour</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-27.htm">Parts</a> <a href="/proverbs/24-23.htm">Person's</a> <a href="/proverbs/26-22.htm">Self-Inflicted</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-17.htm">Sweet</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-19.htm">Talebearer</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-19.htm">Tale-Bearer</a> <a href="/proverbs/26-20.htm">Whisperer</a> <a href="/proverbs/19-7.htm">Words</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-30.htm">Wounds</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/proverbs/18-8.htm">Proverbs 18:8 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/proverbs/18-8.htm">Proverbs 18:8 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/proverbs/18-8.htm">Proverbs 18:8 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/proverbs/18-8.htm">Proverbs 18:8 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/proverbs/18-8.htm">Proverbs 18:8 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/proverbs/18-8.htm">Proverbs 18:8 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/proverbs/18-8.htm">Proverbs 18:8 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/proverbs/18-8.htm">Proverbs 18:8 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/proverbs/18-8.htm">Proverbs 18:8 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a And are body choice dainty down go gossip inmost innermost into like man's morsels of parts The they to whisperer words<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/proverbs/18-8.htm">OT Poetry: Proverbs 18:8 The words of a gossip are like (Prov. 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