Proverbs 18:4
Good News Translation
A person's words can be a source of wisdom, deep as the ocean, fresh as a flowing stream.

New Revised Standard Version
The words of the mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a gushing stream.

Contemporary English Version
Words of wisdom are a stream that flows from a deep fountain.

New American Bible
The words of one’s mouth are deep waters, the spring of wisdom, a running brook.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Words from the mouth of a man are as deep water: and the fountain of wisdom is an overflowing stream.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Proverbs 10:11 Hatred stirreth up strifes: and charity covereth all sins.

Proverbs 13:14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.

Proverbs 16:22 Knowledge is a fountain of life to him that possesseth it: the instruction of fools is foolishness.

Proverbs 20:5 Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out.

Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

John 4:14 But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.

John 7:38,39 He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith: Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. . . .

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.

Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

*the wellspring

Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

Context
The Selfishness of the Unfriendly
3The wicked man, when he is come into the depths of sins, contemneth: but ignominy and reproach follow him. 4Words from the mouth of a man are as deep water: and the fountain of wisdom is an overflowing stream.5It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to decline from the truth of judgment.…
Cross References
Proverbs 10:11
Hatred stirreth up strifes: and charity covereth all sins.

Proverbs 18:3
The wicked man, when he is come into the depths of sins, contemneth: but ignominy and reproach follow him.

Proverbs 20:5
Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out.

Proverbs 18:3
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