“The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.”
— WEB
Proverbs 18:4
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“The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.”
— KJV
“The words of a man`s mouth are [as] deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is [as] a flowing brook.”
— ASV
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Commentary
The similitudes here seem to be elegantly transposed. 1. The well-spring of wisdom is as deep waters. An intelligent knowing man has in him a good treasure of useful things, which furnishes him with something to say upon all occasions that is pertinent and profitable. This is as deep waters, which make no noise, but never run dry. 2. The words of such a man's mouth are as a flowing brook. What he sees cause to speak flows naturally from him and with a great deal of ease, and freedom, and natural fluency; it is clean and fresh, it is cleansing and refreshing; from his deep waters there flows what there is occasion for, to water those about him, as the brooks do the low grounds.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary (public domain)
Wise speech is like an exhaustless stream of benefit.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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