Proverbs 20:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Counsel in the heart of man is like water in a deep well, but a man of understanding draws it out. [Prov. 18:4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.

Common English Bible

Advice comes from the deep waters of the heart; those with understanding can draw it out.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep waters. But a wise man will draw it out.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Proverbs 20:5 Cross References

Psalm 64:6

They search out iniquities; We have accomplished, say they, a diligent search: And the inward thought of every one, and the heart, is deep.

Proverbs 18:4

The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is as a flowing brook.

Proverbs 20:4

The slothful will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs 20:6

Most men wilt proclaim every one his own kindness: But a faithful man who can find?

1 Corinthians 2:11

For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.