5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
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The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(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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