Proverbs 20:5
Good News Translation
A person's thoughts are like water in a deep well, but someone with insight can draw them out.

New Revised Standard Version
The purposes in the human mind are like deep water, but the intelligent will draw them out.

Contemporary English Version
Someone's thoughts may be as deep as the ocean, but if you are smart, you will discover them.

New American Bible
The intention of the human heart is deep water, but the intelligent draw it forth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out.

Proverbs 18:4 Words from the mouth of a man are as deep water: and the fountain of wisdom is an overflowing stream.

Psalm 64:6 They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:

1 Corinthians 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God, no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God.

Context
Wine is a Mocker
4Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him. 5Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out.6Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?…
Cross References
Proverbs 18:4
Words from the mouth of a man are as deep water: and the fountain of wisdom is an overflowing stream.

Proverbs 20:4
Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.

Proverbs 20:6
Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?

Proverbs 20:4
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