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Les paroles du rapporteur sont comme des friandises, Elles descendent jusqu'au fond des entrailles.

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(A)The words of a [a]talebearer are like [b]tasty trifles,
And they go down into the [c]inmost body.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 18:8 gossip or slanderer
  2. Proverbs 18:8 A Jewish tradition wounds
  3. Proverbs 18:8 Lit. rooms of the belly

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

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The words of a gossip are like tasty bits of food.
·People like to gobble them up [L They go down to one’s inmost parts].

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