8 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
Proverbs 18:8
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Proverbs 26:21–23
21 Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. 22 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being. 23 Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.
Sirach 19:11–13
11 A fool will travail in pain with a word, as a woman in labor with a child. (WEB) 12 As an arrow that sticks in the flesh of the thigh, so is gossip in a fool. (WEB) 13 Question a friend; it may be he didn’t do it. If he did something, it may be that he may do it no more. (WEB)
Proverbs 16:23–25
23 The heart of the wise man instructs his mouth and adds persuasiveness to his lips. 24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. 25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
Proverbs 18:19–21
19 An offended brother is harder to win than a fortified city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle. 20 From the fruit of his mouth a man’s belly is filled; with the harvest from his lips he is satisfied. 21 Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those…
Job 34:2–4
2 “Hear my words, O wise men; give ear to me, O men of learning. 3 For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food. 4 Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.
Proverbs 15:3–5
3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good. 4 A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit. 5 A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.
Sirach 30:17–19
17 Death is better than a bitter life, and eternal rest than a continual sickness. (WEB) 18 Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed are like food offerings laid upon a grave. (WEB) 19 What does an offering profit an idol? For it can’t eat or smell. So is he who is punish… (WEB)
Sirach 21:24–26
24 It is rude for someone to listen at a door, but a prudent person will be grieved with the disgrace. (WEB) 25 The lips of strangers will be grieved at these things, but the words of prudent men will be weighed in the balance. (WEB) 26 The heart of fools is in their mouth, but the… (WEB)
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