The Bible Study Podcast, episode 475.

Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of Proverbs with chapter 13.

Welcome with the Bible Study podcast.

We are still in the book of Proverbs.

We have quite a ways to go. We are more than one third of the way in the book. There are 31 chapters, and we're in chapter 13. For some time now, we're going to be dealing with these chapters that are just a series of collections of Proverbs with no specific theme to them. There are 25 in Proverbs 13, and we'll do

them one at a time. A wise son heeds his father's instruction, but a mocker does not respond

to rebukes. So when it talks about a mocker, not responding to rebukes, a mocker, again,

would be those people who are just making fun of things and not responding to rebukes, meaning not being able to take instruction, not being able to learn when wrong, and be corrected.

And again, we've talked about this before. If you can't take correction, how can you learn? From the fruit of their lips, people enjoy good things, but the unfaithful have an appetite for violence.

Again, interesting, we talk about lips quite a lot here in Proverbs. We're going to get another one just in a second here.

The fruit of their lips, what people say. From the fruit of their lips, people enjoy good things.

Say good things, get good things back. Might be a simple way of saying that, but the

unfaithful have an appetite for violence. Again, interesting tying in the mouth here, but not

talking in this case, but appetite, what it is that we long for. Those who guard their lips,

preserve their lives, but those who speak rashly will come to ruin. This just sounds like something

that your father would tell you, that be careful what you say, but said in a very evocative way,

those who guard the lips preserve their lives. In World War I or World War II, we would have said

loose lips sink ships. A sluggers' appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

I think what we're just seeing here is, if you especially think about the context of this

in agrarian society, how are you going to eat if you don't go out there and do the work?

And that's true for us, although it's one level removed from going out and sewing and

weeding and hoeing

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