PROVERBS CHAPTER 13.
V. 1. A wise son heareth his father’s instruction, is the object and product of his father’s corrective training; but a scorner heareth not rebuke, no matter how earnestly he is reproved, it makes no impression upon him.
V. 2. A man shall eat good, himself enjoy the benefits, by the fruit of his mouth, as the result of his speaking always with the benefit of others in mind; but the soul of the trangressors shall eat violence, they are satisfied only if they can exercise violence upon others and thus satisfy their appetite for spoil.
V. 3. He that keepeth his mouth, that no evil, sinful speeches issue therefrom, keepeth his life; but he that openeth wide his lips, permitting the evil thoughts of his heart to issue in the form of malignant speeches, shall have destruction, bringing it upon himself as the inevitable consequence of his foolish or sinful indiscretion.