THEOSISProverbs 18:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Words from the mouth of a man are as deep water: and the fountain of wisdom is an overflowing stream.
מַ֣יִם עֲ֭מֻקִּים דִּבְרֵ֣י פִי־אִ֑ישׁ נַ֥חַל נֹ֝בֵ֗עַ מְק֣וֹר חָכְמָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 10:11The mouth of the just is a vein of life: and the mouth of the wicked covereth iniquity.
- Prov 20:5Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out.
- Col 4:6Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.
- John 4:14But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.
- Prov 13:14The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.
- John 7:38He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith: Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
- John 7:39Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive who believed in him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
- Col 3:16Let 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.