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The words of a gossip are like delicious morsels

This speaks of gossip being desirable to listen to as if it were delicious food to eat. Alternate translation: "The words of a gossip are desirable to listen to" or (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile)

they go down into the inner parts of the body

This speaks of the words that a gossip says going into a person's mind and affecting his thoughts as if they were food that was going into his stomach. This sentence is equivalent to Proverbs 18:8. Alternate translation: "and they enter a person's mind and affect his thoughts" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)