more about mouths

 12 Hope that is deferred makes the heart sick,

but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

13 He who despises a word will bring destruction on himself,

but he who respects a commandment will be rewarded.

2 From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he shall eat what is good,

but the desire of the treacherous, wrongdoing.

So much of these shorter aphorisms focus on honesty and speech that i can't help but see and hear Jesus..."For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 The good person from his good treasury brings out good things, and the evil person from his evil treasury brings out evil things." Matt 12

So our words, the fruit of our lips, show even us, what is in our hearts. The treasury of our hearts. And where is our treasure? What is our desire? If it is for worldly things, even good things, then it will be filled with anxiety and envy and all kinds of strife because even good things are passing away and can be taken from us and cannot satisfy.

But if our eye is on the Light, then we are filled with light and truth and righteousness. If what we desire is to be wise, then we will listen to wisdom: respect a commandment, take advice, guard reproof, then we will "know", be one with, drink deep from the fountain of Life: Wisdom, and He has promised to fill us abundantly! The Tree of Life. These are not disconnected sayings...they are facets of our pearl of great price. And our mouth is testifying to us whether or not we know Him. If we do, we will sound like Him. If we do not...well, as the proverb my mom used to quote goes, garbage in, garbage out.