Proverbs 18:8 Cross References - LEB

⁸ The words of a whisper are like delicious morsels, and they themselves go down to inner parts of the body.

¹⁶ You* shall not go about with slander among your* people; _⌊you* shall not endanger your* neighbor's life_⌋;* I am Yahweh.

² Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.

³ who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They bend their bow to shoot their arrows—bitter words, ⁴ to shoot from* their* hiding places at the blameless. Suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.

¹⁸ There is one who speaks rashly, like the thrust of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

²⁸ A person of perversity will spread dissent, and he who whispers separates a close friend.

²⁰ For lack of wood, a fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling will cease. ²¹ As charcoal is to hot embers and wood is to fire, so a man of quarrels is to kindling strife. ²² The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels, and they go down to the inner parts of the body.