Proverbs 18:8 (BSB)

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.

From Proverbs 18. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 18:8

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 18:8: Tale-bearers are those who secretly carry stories from house to house, which perhaps have some truth in them, but are secrets not fit to be told, or are basely misrepresented, and false colours put upon them, and are all told with design to blast men's reputation, to break their friendship, to make mischief between relations and neighbours, and set them at variance.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 18:8: The words of a talebearer are as wounds,.... Or rather they are wounds; they wound the credit and reputation of the person of whom the tale is told; they wound the person to whom it is told, and destroy his love and affection to his friend; and in the issue they wound, hurt, and ruin the talebearer himself.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 18:8: (Compare Pro 16:28). as wounds--not sustained by the Hebrew; better, as "sweet morsels," which men gladly swallow. innermost . . . belly--the mind, or heart (compare Pro 20:27-30; Psa 22:14).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 18:8: The words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. (f) They are soon believed and enter most deeply.