The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

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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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20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

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20 Without wood a fire goes out;
    without a gossip a quarrel dies down.(A)

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