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Proverbs 20:5
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Counsel in a person’s heart is deep water;but a person of understanding draws it out.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
The purpose in a man's heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
A plan in the heart of a person is like deep water, But a person of understanding draws it out.
People's thoughts can be like a deep well, but someone with understanding can find the wisdom there.
A plan (motive, wise counsel) in the heart of a man is like water in a deep well, But a man of understanding draws it out.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.
The counsell in the heart of man is like deepe waters: but a man that hath vnderstanding, will drawe it out.
Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water,But a man of discernment draws it out.
The intentions of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.
Someone's thoughts may be as deep as the ocean, but if you are smart, you will discover them.
The heart's real intentions are like deep water; but a person with discernment draws them out.
Counsel in the heart of man is deep water, and a man of understanding draweth it out.
Getting information from someone can be like getting water from a deep well. If you are smart, you will draw it out.
The counsel in a kings heart is deep; but a wise man will draw it out.
A person's thoughts are like water in a deep well, but someone with insight can draw them out.
Deep waters are like purpose in the heart of a man, and a man of understanding will draw it out.
Counsel in a man's heart is like deep water, and a man of understanding will draw it out.
Wyse councell in the herte of man is like a water in the depe of the earth, but he that hath vnderstondinge, bryngeth it forth.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.
The purpose in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of good sense will get it out.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Counsell in the heart of man is like deepe water: but a man of vnderstanding will draw it out.
Counsayle in the heart of man is like deepe water: but a man of vnderstanding wyll drawe it out.
Counsel in a man’s heart is deep water; but a prudent man will draw it out.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
As deep watir, so counsel is in the herte of a man; but a wijs man schal drawe it out.
Counsel in the heart of man is [like] deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.
Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Counsel in a person's heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, But a man of understanding will draw it out.
Though good advice lies deep within the heart, a person with understanding will draw it out.
The purposes in the human mind are like deep water, but the intelligent will draw them out.
Deep water, is counsel in a man's heart, but, a man of understanding, will draw it out.
Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out.
The purpose in a man's mind is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Counsel in the heart of a man [is] deep water, And a man of understanding draweth it up.
Knowing what is right is like deep water in the heart; a wise person draws from the well within.
A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water, But a man of understanding draws it out.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 18:4, Psalms 64:6, 1 Corinthians 2:11
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 20:12 - sounded Ezra 8:16 - men of understanding Romans 8:39 - depth
Cross-References
"The Powerful One, the Lord, the Powerful One, God, the Lord! He knows! And may Israel itself know! If it was going against the Lord and not being faithful to Him, do not save us this day!
As for you, walk before Me as your father David walked, with a true heart doing what is right. Do all that I have told you. Obey My Laws. If you do,
"I beg You, O Lord, remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart. I have done what is good in Your eyes." And Hezekiah cried much.
O my God, I know that You test the heart and are pleased with what is right. I have given these things because I have wanted to with a clean heart. And now I have seen with joy how Your people who are here give gifts to You because they want to.
You said, ‘I am pure and without sin. I am not guilty, and there is no sin in me.
May the Lord judge which people are guilty or not. O Lord, judge in my favor if I am right with You, and if I am without blame.
He who has clean hands and a pure heart. He who has not lifted up his soul to what is not true, and has not made false promises.
Let what is good and what is right keep me safe, because I wait for You.
I will wash my hands of any guilt. And I will go around Your altar, O Lord.
For no good reason I have kept my heart pure and have not sinned.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water,.... Pure and undisturbed, but secret, hidden, and hard to be come at: such are the things of the spirit of a man, the thoughts of his mind, the devices of his heart; which, though easily known by the searcher of hearts, are not easily penetrated into by men; or it is not easily got out of them what is in them, especially in some men, who are very close and reserved. This is true of wicked men, who seek sleep to hide their counsel; and of good men, especially studious men, who have got a great deal of wisdom and knowledge in them, but not very communicative, being slow of speech, and silent in conversation;
but a man of understanding will draw it out; he will find ways and means to discover the secret designs of wicked men, whether against church or state; and, by asking proper questions, an understanding man will get out useful things from men of knowledge, the most reserved: some men must be pumped, and a good deal of pains must be taken with them, to get out anything of them, as in getting water out of a deep well, and which when got is very good; and so is that wisdom and knowledge which is gotten by an inquisitive man from another of superior knowledge, but not very diffusive of it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The contest between reticence on the one side and pertinacity in search on the other is represented as by a parable. The well may be very deep (compare the marginal reference), but the man of understandingâ has enough skill to draw up the water even to the last drop. Every question is, as it were, a turning of the windlass.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 20:5. Counsel in the heart of man — Men of the deepest and most comprehensive minds are rarely apt, unsolicited, to join in any discourse, in which they might appear even to the greatest advantage; but a man of understanding will elicit this, by questions framed for the purpose, and thus pump up the salubrious waters from the deep and capacious well. The metaphor is fine and expressive.
