Proverbs 18:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Proverbs 18:4 —

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Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 20:5
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Proverbs 13:14
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
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 be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4)

The similitudes here seem to be elegantly transposed. 1. The well-spring of wisdom is as deep waters. An intelligent knowing man has in him a good treasure of useful things, which furnishes him with something to say upon all occasions that is pertinent and profitable. This is as deep waters, which make no noise, but never run dry. 2. The words of such a man’s mouth are as a flowing brook. What he…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. Wise speech is like an exhaustless stream of benefit.