Proverbs 18:20
From the fruit of a man's mouth is his body satisfied; with the product of his lips doth he satisfy himself.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it will eat its fruit.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:2From the fruit of a man's mouth doth he eat what is good; but the longing of the treacherous is for violence.
Proverbs 22:21That I might make thee know rectitude, the sayings of truth; that thou mightest bring back answers of truth to those that send thee?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 18:20
19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. Note, 1. Great care must be taken to prevent quarrels among relations, and those that are under special obligation to each other, not only because they are most unnatural and unbecoming, but because between such things are commonly taken most unkindly, and resentments are apt to be carried too far. Wisdom and grace would indeed make it most easy to us to forgive our relations and friends if they… Read the whole commentary →