“De fructu oris sui homo satiabitur bonis : anima autem prævaricatorum iniqua.”
“A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.”
“From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things, but the desire of the faithless is violence.”
“By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.”
“A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth; But the soul of the treacherous shall eat violence.”
Mouth. In reward of his good speeches. (Calmet) — Septuagint, “of justice the good man eateth; but the souls of the lawless perish before the time,” chap. xii. 13.
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 not merely give it the hearing. 2. There is little hope of those that will not so much as hear rebuke with any patience, but scorn to submit to government and scoff at those that deal faithfully with them. How can those mend a fault who will not be told of it, but count those their enemies who do them that kindness?