Teks -- Proverbs 13:2 (NET)

13:2 From the fruit of his speech a person eats good things, but the faithless desire the fruit of violence.

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Wesley: Pro 13:2 - Shall eat

Shall receive comfort, and benefit by his wise and profitable discourses.

JFB: Pro 13:2 - shall eat

That is, obtain (Pro 12:14).

JFB: Pro 13:2 - transgressors

As in Pro 2:22.

JFB: Pro 13:2 - violence

Or, "mischief" to themselves.

TSK: Pro 13:2 - eat // the soul

eat : Pro 12:14, Pro 18:20

the soul : Pro 1:11-13, Pro 1:18, Pro 1:31, Pro 4:17, Pro 10:11; Psa 75:8, Psa 140:11; Jer 25:27-31; Hab 2:8, Hab 2:17; Rev 16:6

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Poole: Pro 13:2 - Shall eat good // By the fruit of his mouth // The soul // The transgressors // Shall eat violence

Shall eat good shall receive much comfort, and credit, and benefit to himself.

By the fruit of his mouth by his wise and profitable discourses.

The soul i.e. the person, as the soul is oft used.

The transgressors who transgress with their lips, as this general phrase may be restrained from the former clause.

Shall eat violence shall have that violence and injury returned upon themselves, which they have offered to others in word or deed.

Haydock: Pro 13:2 - Mouth

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.

Gill: Pro 13:2 - A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth // but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence

A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth,.... Or, "of the mouth"; either another's or his own, since the word his is not in the text; though it is supplied by the Targum, Aben Ezra, the Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions, as by us. The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, "shall eat of the fruits of righteousness". I should choose to translate the whole thus: "a good man shall eat of the fruit of his mouth": so Aben Ezra interprets it, "a good man shall eat"; and so the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions render it. The sense is, that a good man brings forth good things out of the good treasure of his heart by his mouth; which not only minister grace to the hearers, and are for the use of edifying to others, but also to himself; while he gives wholesome counsel and advice to others, it is of service to himself; while he comforts others, he comforts himself; and while he teaches and instructs others, he teaches and instructs himself: so a good minister of Jesus Christ, while he feeds others with knowledge and understanding, he himself is nourished up with the words of faith and good doctrine; so Jarchi refers it to a man's doctrine, and the reward of it here and hereafter;

but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence; Jarchi interprets it,

"the delight of transgressors is violence;'' ^u.

that is, what their souls desire, choose, will, and take pleasure in, even using violence, and doing mischief to others; and to the same purpose is the note of Gersom: but Aben Ezra supplies it from the former clause, as we do; and the sense is, that the same measure they mete out to others shall be measured out to them again; what they give others to eat, they shall eat themselves, even the bread of violence; see Pro 4:16. And this will be the case of all perfidious and treacherous ones, as the word ^w used signifies; of false teachers and cruel persecutors; and of Babylon, of whom it will he said, "reward her as she rewarded you", Rev 18:6.