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5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Proverbs 20:5 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 5)A man’s wisdom is here said to be of use to him for the pumping of other people, and diving into them, 1. To get the knowledge of them. Though men’s counsels and designs are ever so carefully concealed by them, so that they are as deep water which one cannot fathom, yet there are those who by sly insinuations, and questions that seem foreign, will get out of them both what they have done and what ...
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