Proverbs 13:2
1 A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things, but the desire of the faithless is violence.
- KJV
- A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
- WEB
- By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.
- ASV
- A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth; But the soul of the treacherous [shall eat] violence.
- DARBY
- A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth; but the soul of the treacherous, violence.
- BLB
- From the fruit of the mouth a man eats good things, and the soul of the treacherous, violence.
- ÅB
- Av sin munns frukt nyter en mann godt, men de troløses hu står til vold.
- OTB
- Av munnens frukt nyter man gode ting, men de troløses begjær er vold.
- B1930
- Av sin munns frukt nyter en mann godt, men de troløses hu står til vold.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 12:14
A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.
Read in contextProverbs 18:20
A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
Read in contextProverbs 10:11
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Read in contextPsalms 140:11
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Read in contextProverbs 1:31
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Read in contextProverbs 1:11–13
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Read in contextProverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Read in contextPsalms 75:8
For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
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