the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Proverbs 20:5
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Counsel in a person’s heart is deep water;but a person of understanding draws it out.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
The purpose in a man's heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
A plan in the heart of a person is like deep water, But a person of understanding draws it out.
People's thoughts can be like a deep well, but someone with understanding can find the wisdom there.
A plan (motive, wise counsel) in the heart of a man is like water in a deep well, But a man of understanding draws it out.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.
The counsell in the heart of man is like deepe waters: but a man that hath vnderstanding, will drawe it out.
Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water,But a man of discernment draws it out.
The intentions of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.
Someone's thoughts may be as deep as the ocean, but if you are smart, you will discover them.
The heart's real intentions are like deep water; but a person with discernment draws them out.
Counsel in the heart of man is deep water, and a man of understanding draweth it out.
Getting information from someone can be like getting water from a deep well. If you are smart, you will draw it out.
The counsel in a kings heart is deep; but a wise man will draw it out.
A person's thoughts are like water in a deep well, but someone with insight can draw them out.
Deep waters are like purpose in the heart of a man, and a man of understanding will draw it out.
Counsel in a man's heart is like deep water, and a man of understanding will draw it out.
Wyse councell in the herte of man is like a water in the depe of the earth, but he that hath vnderstondinge, bryngeth it forth.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Counsell in the heart of man is like deepe water: but a man of vnderstanding will draw it out.
Counsayle in the heart of man is like deepe water: but a man of vnderstanding wyll drawe it out.
Counsel in a man’s heart is deep water; but a prudent man will draw it out.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
As deep watir, so counsel is in the herte of a man; but a wijs man schal drawe it out.
Counsel in the heart of man is [like] deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.
Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Counsel in a person's heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, But a man of understanding will draw it out.
Though good advice lies deep within the heart, a person with understanding will draw it out.
The plan in a man's heart is like water in a deep well, but a man of understanding gets it out.
The purposes in the human mind are like deep water, but the intelligent will draw them out.
Deep water, is counsel in a man's heart, but, a man of understanding, will draw it out.
Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out.
The purpose in a man's mind is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Counsel in the heart of a man [is] deep water, And a man of understanding draweth it up.
Knowing what is right is like deep water in the heart; a wise person draws from the well within.
A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water, But a man of understanding draws it out.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 18:4, Psalms 64:6, 1 Corinthians 2:11
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 20:12 - sounded Ezra 8:16 - men of understanding Romans 8:39 - depth
Cross-References
God, even God the Lord, God, even God the Lord, he sees, and Israel will see--if it is in pride or in sin against the Lord,
As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;
O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.
And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you.
I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:
The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.
He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.
For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.
I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;
As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water,.... Pure and undisturbed, but secret, hidden, and hard to be come at: such are the things of the spirit of a man, the thoughts of his mind, the devices of his heart; which, though easily known by the searcher of hearts, are not easily penetrated into by men; or it is not easily got out of them what is in them, especially in some men, who are very close and reserved. This is true of wicked men, who seek sleep to hide their counsel; and of good men, especially studious men, who have got a great deal of wisdom and knowledge in them, but not very communicative, being slow of speech, and silent in conversation;
but a man of understanding will draw it out; he will find ways and means to discover the secret designs of wicked men, whether against church or state; and, by asking proper questions, an understanding man will get out useful things from men of knowledge, the most reserved: some men must be pumped, and a good deal of pains must be taken with them, to get out anything of them, as in getting water out of a deep well, and which when got is very good; and so is that wisdom and knowledge which is gotten by an inquisitive man from another of superior knowledge, but not very diffusive of it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The contest between reticence on the one side and pertinacity in search on the other is represented as by a parable. The well may be very deep (compare the marginal reference), but the man of understandingâ has enough skill to draw up the water even to the last drop. Every question is, as it were, a turning of the windlass.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 20:5. Counsel in the heart of man — Men of the deepest and most comprehensive minds are rarely apt, unsolicited, to join in any discourse, in which they might appear even to the greatest advantage; but a man of understanding will elicit this, by questions framed for the purpose, and thus pump up the salubrious waters from the deep and capacious well. The metaphor is fine and expressive.
