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Commentary for Proverbs 13:2

מִפְּרִ֣י פִי־אִ֭ישׁ יֹ֣אכַל ט֑וֹב וְנֶ֖פֶשׁ בֹּגְדִ֣ים חָמָֽס׃

A man shall eat good from the fruit of his mouth; But the desire of the faithless is violence.

Rashi on Proverbs

From the fruit of man’s mouth he will eat good From the reward of his Torah, he will eat the good in this world and the principal will exist in the world to come.
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Rashi on Proverbs

but the desire of the treacherous is violence Heb. ונפש. The desire of the treacherous is violence, as in (Gen. 23:8): “If it is your desire (נפשכם)” and (Ps. 27:12): “Do not give me for the desire of (בנפש) my adversaries.”
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