the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Proverbs 18:4
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The words of a person’s mouth are deep waters,a flowing river, a fountain of wisdom.
The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
The words of a person's mouth are deep waters; The fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
Spoken words can be like deep water, but wisdom is like a flowing stream.
The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters [copious and difficult to fathom]; The fountain of [mature, godly] wisdom is like a bubbling stream [sparkling, fresh, pure, and life-giving].
The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
The words of a man's mouth are deep waters;The fountain of wisdom is a flowing brook.
The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
Words of wisdom are a stream that flows from a deep fountain.
The words of a man's mouth are deep water, a gushing torrent, a fountain of wisdom.
The words of a man's mouth are deep waters, [and] the fountain of wisdom is a gushing brook.
Words from wise people are like water bubbling up from a deep well—the well of wisdom.
The words of a mans mouth are like deep waters; and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
A person's words can be a source of wisdom, deep as the ocean, fresh as a flowing stream.
Deep waters are words of the mouth of a man; a gushing stream is a fountain of wisdom.
The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters, the fountain of wisdom like a flowing stream.
The wordes of a mas mouth are like depe waters, and the well of wy?dome is like a full streame.
The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is as a flowing brook.
The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters: the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.
The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters; a flowing brook, a fountain of wisdom.
The words of a mans mouth, are as deepe waters, and the well-spring of wisedome as a flowing brooke.
The wordes of a [wyse] mans mouth are lyke deepe waters: and the well of wisdome is like a full streame.
A word in the heart of a man is a deep water, and a river and fountain of life spring forth.
The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters; the wellspring of wisdom is as a flowing brook.
Deep watir is the wordis of the mouth of a man; and a stronde fletinge ouer is the welle of wisdom.
The words of a man's mouth are [as] deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is [as] a flowing brook.
The words of a man's mouth [are as] deep waters, [and] the well-spring of wisdom [as] a flowing brook.
The words of a person's mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook.
Wise words are like deep waters; wisdom flows from the wise like a bubbling brook.
The words of a man's mouth are deep waters. Wisdom comes like a flowing river making a pleasant noise.
The words of the mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a gushing stream.
Deep waters, are the words of a man's mouth, - a bubbling brook, the well-spring of wisdom.
Words from the mouth of a man are as deep water: and the fountain of wisdom is an overflowing stream.
The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a gushing stream.
Deep waters [are] the words of a man's mouth, The fountain of wisdom [is] a flowing brook.
Many words rush along like rivers in flood, but deep wisdom flows up from artesian springs.
The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; The fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
words: Proverbs 10:11, Proverbs 13:14, Proverbs 16:22, Proverbs 20:5, Matthew 12:34, John 4:14, John 7:38, John 7:39, Colossians 3:16, Colossians 4:6
the wellspring: Psalms 78:2
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 9:2 - all Proverbs 18:21 - Death Matthew 13:52 - which
Cross-References
And I will bring a morsell of bread, that you may comfort your hearts, afterward ye shall go your wayes: for therefore are ye come to your seruant. And they said, Do euen as thou hast said.
But Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not: for she was afraide. And he said, It is not so: for thou laughedst.
And he saide, See my Lords, I pray you turne in nowe into your seruants house, and tarie all night, and wash your feete, & ye shall rise vp early and goe your wayes. Who saide, Nay, but we will abide in the streete all night.
Then the man came into the house, and he vnsadled the camels, and brought litter and prouender for the camels, and water to wash his feete, and the mens feete that were with him.
So the man led them into Iosephs house, & gaue them water to wash their feete, and gaue their asses prouender.
And she arose, and bowed her selfe on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmayde be a seruant to wash the feete of the seruants of my lord.
Then he turned to the woman, and said vnto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entred into thine house, and thou gauest mee no water to my feete: but she hath washed my feete with teares, and wiped them with the heares of her head.
And well reported of for good woorkes: if shee haue nourished her children, if shee haue lodged the strangers, if shee haue washed the Saintes feete, if shee haue ministred vnto them which were in aduersitie, if shee were continually giuen vnto euery good woorke.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The words of a man's mouth [are as] deep waters,.... The words of a great and mighty man; of an excellent and valuable man, as Jarchi; or of a wise man, as Aben Ezra. The doctrines which such a man has imbibed, and his heart is full of and his mouth utters, are like to "waters", pure, purifying, and refreshing; to "deep waters", which make no noise, and cannot be easily fathomed: such are the deep mysteries of grace, the wisdom of God in a mystery, spoken among them that are perfect; of which a good man makes no boast, but humbly declares; out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth speaks;
[and] the wellspring of wisdom [as] a flowing brook; there is a spring of spiritual wisdom and knowledge in him; a well of living water, springing up unto everlasting life; and from thence it flows freely and constantly; communicating itself liberally unto others, and ministering grace to the hearers, for their edification.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The parallelism of the two clauses is probably one of contrast. If so, the proverb is a comparison between all teaching from without and that of the light within. âThe words of a manâs mouthâ are dark as the âdeep watersâ of a pool, or tank (âdeep watersâ being associated in the Old Testament with the thought of darkness and mystery; compare Proverbs 20:5; Psalms 69:2; Ecclesiastes 7:24); but âthe wellspring of wisdom is as a flowing brook,â bright and clear. The verse presents a contrast like that of Jeremiah 2:13.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 18:4. The words of a man's mouth — That is, the wise sayings of a wise man are like deep waters; howsoever much you pump or draw off, you do not appear to lessen them.
The well-spring of wisdom — Where there is a sound understanding, and a deep, well-informed mind, its wisdom and its counsels are an incessant stream, ×ק×ר ×××× mekor chochmah, "the vein of wisdom," ever throwing out its healthy streams: but ×ק×ר ×××× mekor chaiyim, "the vein of LIVES," is the reading of eight of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., and is countenanced by the Septuagint, Ïηγη ζÏηÏ, "the fountain of life." And so the Arabic, [Arabic]. This is the more likely to be the true reading, because the figure of the heart propelling the blood through the great aorta, to send it to all parts of the animal system, is a favourite with Solomon, as it was with his father, David. Psalms 36:9; "Proverbs 10:11", &c.
