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# The words of a gossip are like delicious morsels
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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/translate/figs-simile]])
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# The words of a gossip
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This refers to what a gossiping person says. Alternate translation: "The words that a gossiping person speaks" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-possession]])
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# morsels
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small bites of food
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# they go down into the inner parts of the body
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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/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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