The words of a gossip ¹  are like choice morsels; ²  they go down into the person’s innermost being. ³ 

you will vomit up ¹  the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words. ² 

The words of a gossip are like delicious morsels; they go down into a person’s innermost being. ¹ 

All of man’s labor is for nothing more than ¹  to fill his stomach ²  – yet his appetite ³  is never satisfied!

On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,

Then the priest ¹  must remove its entrails by cutting off its tail feathers, ²  and throw them ³  to the east side of the altar into the place of fatty ashes,

Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon’s ¹  belly.

Now Joab ¹  did not number Levi and Benjamin, for the king’s edict disgusted him.

And you will get a serious, chronic intestinal disease which will cause your intestines to come out.” ¹ 

“While he is ¹  filling his belly, God ²  sends his burning anger ³  against him, and rains down his blows upon him. ⁴ 

How long must I worry, ¹  and suffer in broad daylight? ²  How long will my enemy gloat over me? ³ 

He made cursing a way of life, ¹  so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil. ² 

Your navel ¹  is a round mixing bowl ²  – may it never lack ³  mixed wine! ⁴  Your belly ⁵  is a mound of wheat, encircled ⁶  by lilies.

Destruction, devastation, and desolation! ¹  Their hearts faint, ²  their knees tremble, ³  each stomach churns, ⁴  each face ⁵  turns ⁶  pale! ⁷ 

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

I listened and my stomach churned; ¹  the sound made my lips quiver. My frame went limp, as if my bones were decaying, ²  and I shook as I tried to walk. ³  I long ⁴  for the day of distress to come upon ⁵  the people who attack us.

You must not eat anything that crawls ¹  on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs ²  of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we ¹  detest this worthless ²  food.”

The handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for Ehud ¹  did not pull the sword out of his belly. ²