John Trapp on Proverbs 18:8

Verſ. 8. The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds] See the Note on Chap. 12.18. Hee that takes away a mans good name, kills him alive, and ruines him and his poſterity; being herein worſe than Cain, for hee in killing his brother, made him live for ever, and eternallized his name. Some read, are as the words of the wounded: they ſeem to ſpeak out of wounded troubled hearts, and then their words go down into the belly, they go glib down, paſſe without the leaſt queſtioning.