Proverbs Chapter 18 verse 4 Holy Bible
The words of a man's mouth are `as' deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is `as' a flowing brook.
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The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters: the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.
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The words of a man's mouth are deep waters, [and] the fountain of wisdom is a gushing brook.
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The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
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The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
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Deep waters `are' the words of a man's mouth, The fountain of wisdom `is' a flowing brook.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters. "Man" (ish) here means the ideal man in all his wisdom and integrity, just as in Proverbs 18:22 the ideal wife is intended under the general term "wife." Such a man's words are as deep waters which cannot be fathomed or exhausted. The metaphor is common (see Proverbs 20:5; Ecclesiastes 7:24; Ecclus. 21:13). For "mouth," the Septuagint reads "heart:" "Deep water is a word in a man's heart." The second hemistich explains the first: The well spring of wisdom as a flowing (gushing) brook. A man's words are now called a well spring of wisdom, gushing forth from its source, the wise and understanding heart, pure, fresh, and inexhaustible. Septuagint, "And it leapeth forth (ἀναπηδύει) a river and a fountain of life." Or we may, with Delitzsch, take the whole as one idea, and consider that a man's words are deep waters, a bubbling brook, and a fountain of wisdom.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters . . .--i.e., the words of a "man," properly so called, are as deep waters which cannot be easily fathomed; they are a copious stream, which flows from a never failing source; they are a fountain of wisdom which is never exhausted.
