Proverbs 18:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is as a flowing brook.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, And the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ The words of a [discreet and wise] man's mouth are like deep waters [plenteous and difficult to fathom], and the fountain of skillful and godly Wisdom is like a gushing stream [sparkling, fresh, pure, and life-giving].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is as a flowing brook.

Common English Bible

⁴ The words of a person’s mouth are deep waters, a bubbling stream, a fountain of wisdom.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Words from the mouth of a man are deep waters. And the fountain of wisdom is a torrent overflowing.

Proverbs 18:4 Cross References

Proverbs 20:5

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

Proverbs 10:11

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life: But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

John 4:14

but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.

Proverbs 13:14

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, To depart from the snares of death.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

Matthew 12:34

Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Psalm 78:2

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old:

Proverbs 16:22

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: But the correction of fools is their folly.

Proverbs 18:3

When the wicked cometh, there cometh also contempt, And with ignominy cometh reproach.