Proverbs 13:2
A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth, but the soul of the treacherous, violence.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1A wise son [hears] his father's instruction, but a scoffer listens not to rebuke.
3He who guards his mouth keeps his life. He who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.
Cross References
Psalms 75:8For in the hand of LORD there is a cup, and the wine foams. It is full of mixture, and he pours out of the same, surely [to] the dregs of it. All the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and drink them.
Proverbs 1:11If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
Proverbs 1:31Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 10:11The mouth of a righteous man is a fountain of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 12:14A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, and the actions of a man's hands shall be rendered to him.
Jeremiah 25:27And thou shall say to them, Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:2
Moral Maxims. 1 A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke. Among the children of the same parents it is no new thing for some to be hopeful and others the contrary; now here we are taught to distinguish. 1. There is great hope of those that have a reverence for their parents, and are willing to be advised and admonished by them. He is a wise son, and is in a far way to be wiser, that hears his father's instruction, desires to hear it, regards it, and complies with it, and does… Read the whole commentary →