From the early Church Fathers to now.
1 Patristic · 1 Jewish · 1 Reformed · 1 Lutheran
“The words of a talebearer are as it were simple, but they reach to the innermost parts of the belly.”
“The words of a whisperer are as simple, etc. He calls the whisperer an instigator of strife and double-tongued, who pretends to praise words and seeks to hear that from which he can sow discord.”
“as though waging battle Heb. כמתלהמים, an expression of מתלחמים. Our Sages however, explained כמתלהמים, כמתלהם, like death to them. The words of the spies became their death. the innermost parts of the body lit. they go down into the chambers of the stomach. This is the death of dropsy.”
“22 The words of the tale-bearer are like dainty morsels; And they glide down into the innermost parts. A repetition of Pro 18:8.”
The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.