Ecclesiastes 18:20

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

De fructu oris viri replebitur venter ejus,
et genimina labiorum ipsius saturabunt eum.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
et retribuet mihi Dominus secundum justitiam meam, et secundum puritatem manuum mearum retribuet mihi ;

Nova Vulgata (1979)
De fructu oris viri replebitur venter eius, et genimina labiorum ipsius saturabunt eum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 12:13, Proverbs 12:14, Proverbs 13:2, Proverbs 22:18, Proverbs 22:21, Proverbs 25:11, Proverbs 25:12

Reciprocal: Isaiah 60:9 - unto Hosea 10:13 - eaten John 4:32 - I have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth,.... With his own words and discourses, when they are prudent, pious, and savoury; when they are with grace, and minister it; they are satisfying to himself, to his own mind and conscience, and to his family; to all within his house, which is, as it were, his belly; but, if otherwise, it will not be profitable nor satisfying to either; and therefore, if a man would keep conscience easy, and be useful to others, he ought to take care what he says; see Proverbs 12:14;

[and] with the increase of his lips shall he be filled; the same thing as before, expressed in different words, alluding to the sowing, of seed in the earth, and the increase of it; as a man sows he reaps, and enjoys the fruits of his labour; according to what a man sows with his lips, such is his harvest he is afterwards a partaker of.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The general sense is plain. A man must for good or evil take the consequence of his words, as well as his deeds. Compare the marginal reference.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 18:20. With the fruit of his mouth — Our own words frequently shape our good or evil fortune in life.