Proverbs 18:4
2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
3 When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
6 A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
- KJV
- The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
- WEB
- The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
- ASV
- The words of a man`s mouth are [as] deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is [as] a flowing brook.
- DARBY
- The words of a man's mouth are deep waters, [and] the fountain of wisdom is a gushing brook.
- BLB
- The words of the mouth of a man [are] deep waters; the fountain of wisdom [is] a flowing brook.
- ÅB
- Ordene i en manns munn er dype vann, visdoms kilde er en fremvellende bekk.
- OTB
- Ordene fra en persons munn er dype vann; visdommens kilde er en rennende bekk.
- B1930
- Ordene i en manns munn er dype vann, visdoms kilde er en fremvellende bekk.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 20:5
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Read in contextProverbs 10:11
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Read in contextColossians 4:6
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Read in contextJohn 4:14
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Read in contextProverbs 13:14
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Read in contextJohn 7:38–39
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Read in contextColossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Read in contextMatthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
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