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# The words of a gossip are like delicious morsels
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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]])
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# they go down into the inner parts of the body
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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](../18/08.md). Alternate translation: "and they enter a person's mind and affect his thoughts" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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