Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The words of the mouth are deep waters, but the fountain of wisdom is a rushing stream. New Living Translation Wise words are like deep waters; wisdom flows from the wise like a bubbling brook. English Standard Version The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. Berean Standard Bible The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. King James Bible The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook. New King James Version The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook. New American Standard Bible The words of a person’s mouth are deep waters; The fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. NASB 1995 The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; The fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. NASB 1977 The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; The fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. Legacy Standard Bible The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; The fountain of wisdom is a flowing brook. Amplified Bible 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]. Christian Standard Bible The words of a person’s mouth are deep waters, a flowing river, a fountain of wisdom. Holman Christian Standard Bible The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters, a flowing river, a fountain of wisdom. American Standard Version The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is as a flowing brook. Aramaic Bible in Plain English The words of a man's mouth are deep waters and the fount of wisdom is a rushing torrent. Brenton Septuagint Translation A word in the heart of a man is a deep water, and a river and fountain of life spring forth. Contemporary English Version Words of wisdom are a stream that flows from a deep fountain. Douay-Rheims Bible Words from the mouth of a men are as deep water: and the fountain of wisdom as an overflowing stream. English Revised Version The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters; the wellspring of wisdom is as a flowing brook. GOD'S WORD® Translation The words of a person's mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is an overflowing stream. Good News Translation A person's words can be a source of wisdom, deep as the ocean, fresh as a flowing stream. International Standard Version The words a man says are as deep waters— a fountain of wisdom is an overflowing stream. JPS Tanakh 1917 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters; A flowing brook, a fountain of wisdom. Literal Standard Version The words of a man’s mouth [are] deep waters, | The fountain of wisdom [is] a flowing brook. Majority Standard Bible The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. New American Bible The words of one’s mouth are deep waters, the spring of wisdom, a running brook. NET Bible The words of a person's mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook. New Revised Standard Version The words of the mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a gushing stream. New Heart English Bible The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook. Webster's Bible Translation The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the well-spring of wisdom as a flowing brook. World English Bible The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook. Young's Literal Translation Deep waters are the words of a man's mouth, The fountain of wisdom is a flowing brook. Additional Translations ... Context The Selfishness of the Unfriendly…3With a wicked man comes contempt as well, and shame is accompanied by disgrace. 4The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. 5Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice.… Cross References Proverbs 10:11 The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. Proverbs 18:3 With a wicked man comes contempt as well, and shame is accompanied by disgrace. Proverbs 20:5 The intentions of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. Treasury of Scripture The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook. words Proverbs 10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. Proverbs 13:14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. Proverbs 16:22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly. Jump to Previous Brook Bubbling Deep Flowing Fountain Mouth Stream Waters Wellspring Well-Spring Wisdom WordsJump to Next Brook Bubbling Deep Flowing Fountain Mouth Stream Waters Wellspring Well-Spring Wisdom WordsProverbs 18 1. A fool delights not in understanding(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.Verse 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. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The wordsדִּבְרֵ֣י (diḇ·rê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause of a man’s אִ֑ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person mouth פִי־ (p̄î-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to are deep עֲ֭מֻקִּים (‘ă·muq·qîm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 6013: Deep waters; מַ֣יִם (ma·yim) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen the fountain מְק֣וֹר (mə·qō·wr) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 4726: Something dug, a, source, of happiness, wisdom, progeny) of wisdom חָכְמָֽה׃ (ḥāḵ·māh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 2451: Wisdom is a bubbling נֹ֝בֵ֗עַ (nō·ḇê·a‘) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 5042: To gush forth, to utter, to emit brook. נַ֥חַל (na·ḥal) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5158: A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft Links Proverbs 18:4 NIVProverbs 18:4 NLT Proverbs 18:4 ESV Proverbs 18:4 NASB Proverbs 18:4 KJV Proverbs 18:4 BibleApps.com Proverbs 18:4 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 18:4 Chinese Bible Proverbs 18:4 French Bible Proverbs 18:4 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 18:4 The words of a man's mouth (Prov. 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