From the fruit of their lips people enjoy good things,(A)
    but the unfaithful have an appetite for violence.

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A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.

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(A)A man shall eat well by the fruit of his mouth,
But the soul of the unfaithful feeds on violence.

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23 A person finds joy in giving an apt reply(A)
    and how good is a timely word!(B)

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23 A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

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23 A man has joy by the answer of his mouth,
And (A)a word spoken [a]in due season, how good it is!

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 15:23 Lit. in its time

20 From the fruit of their mouth a person’s stomach is filled;
    with the harvest of their lips they are satisfied.(A)

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20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

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20 (A)A man’s stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth;
From the produce of his lips he shall be filled.

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