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# The words of a gossip are like delicious morsels

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

# The words of a gossip

This refers to what a gossiping person says. Alternate translation: "The words that a gossiping person speaks" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-possession]])

# morsels

small bites of food

# they go down into the inner parts of the body

This speaks of the words of a gossip going into a person's mind and affecting his thoughts as if they were food that was going into his stomach. Alternate translation: "and they enter a person's mind and affect his thoughts" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])