22 (A)The words of (B)a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
    they go down into the inner parts of the body.

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22 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels;
    they go down to the inmost parts.(A)

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(A)The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
    they go down into (B)the inner parts of the body.

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The words of a gossip are like choice morsels;
    they go down to the inmost parts.(A)

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19 Whoever (A)goes about slandering reveals secrets;
    therefore do not associate with (B)a simple babbler.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 20:19 Hebrew with one who is simple in his lips

19 A gossip betrays a confidence;(A)
    so avoid anyone who talks too much.

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(A)There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you (B)who eat on the mountains; (C)they commit lewdness in your midst.

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In you are slanderers(A) who are bent on shedding blood;(B) in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines(C) and commit lewd acts.(D)

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