Introduction

A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke from the fruit of his mouth. A man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence. Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life. He who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. We should always be trying to discern the way in which the proverbs are true. They don't provide their own context. And spoken in the wrong context, they might even be foolish. It requires closer attention and reflection by inexact juxtapositions.