Proverbs 18:4
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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.

Lexicon
The words
דִּבְרֵ֣י (diḇ·rê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

of a man’s
אִ֑ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

mouth
פִי־ (p̄î-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to

are deep
עֲ֭מֻקִּים (‘ă·muq·qîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6013: Deep

waters;
מַ֣יִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

the fountain
מְק֣וֹר (mə·qō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4726: Something dug, a, source, of happiness, wisdom, progeny)

of wisdom
חָכְמָֽה׃ (ḥāḵ·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2451: Wisdom

is a bubbling
נֹ֝בֵ֗עַ (nō·ḇê·a‘)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5042: To gush forth, to utter, to emit

brook.
נַ֥חַל (na·ḥal)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5158: A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft


Additional Translations
The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

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

A word in the heart of a man is a deep water, and a river and fountain of life spring forth.

The words of a man's mouth are deep waters, [and] the fountain of wisdom is a gushing brook.

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

The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the well-spring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

Deep waters are the words of a man's mouth, The fountain of wisdom is a flowing brook.
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