⁸ The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
    they go down into the inner parts of the body.^(A)

²⁸ A perverse person spreads strife,
    and a whisperer separates close friends.^(A)

¹⁸ Rash words are like sword thrusts,
    but the tongue of the wise brings healing.^(A)

²⁰ For lack of wood the fire goes out,
    and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.^(A)
21 As charcoal is to hot embers and wood to fire,
    so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.^(B)
22 The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
    they go down into the inner parts of the body.^(C)

³ who whet their tongues like swords,
    who aim bitter words like arrows,^(A)
4 shooting from ambush at the blameless;
    they shoot suddenly and without fear.^(B)

²     you are plotting destruction.
Your tongue is like a sharp razor,
    you worker of treachery.^(A)