GEN1228 [The class of those who speak lashon hara [evil speech] [includes] … a malcontent.]   Shlomo, a”h, said Proverbs 18:8, “The words of malcontents are as from those beaten (kemislahamim), and they descend into the pit of the stomach.” What this means is that the malcontent is a person whose manner and nature is to complain and grumble, and to always find criticism with his neighbor, concerning his actions and words. Even though his neighbor acts with him in a straightforward manner and in no way wrongs him, nonetheless he judges everything in a negative light, without giving the other the benefit of the doubt, and every error is turned into malicious intent.   He makes himself as one oppressed and beaten, as if he had been sorely sinned against by his neighbor, when [in truth] he is the one who strikes and beats, since his words descend into the of the stomach.   For one who vents complaints against another, when the latter has not harmed him and has only treated him well [this verse], is a raging storm upon the heart, Jeremiah 23:19, and he is like one who shoots arrows, which descend in to the pit of the stomach.   GATES 445