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Louis Segond 1910
Les paroles du rapporteur sont comme des friandises, Elles descendent jusqu'au fond des entrailles.
KJV
The words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
The words of a talebearer [are] as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 160 (Migne)
28) . Contra istos scriptum esse sciebat: Verba adulatorum mollia, feriunt autem interiora ventris (Prov. XVIII, 8) . Nulli malum pro malo reddebat, vel maledictum pro maledicto (I Petr. III, 9) ; et quasi agnus inter lupos missus morsum malitiae non habebat. Providebat bona non…
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