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Proverbs 18:4

4 The words of a man’s mouth are adeep waters;

1The fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.

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Proverbs 18:4 — The New International Version (NIV)

The words of the mouth are deep waters,

but the fountain of wisdom is a rushing stream.

Proverbs 18:4 — English Standard Version (ESV)

The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters;

the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.

Proverbs 18:4 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters,

And the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

Proverbs 18:4 — New Living Translation (NLT)

Wise words are like deep waters;

wisdom flows from the wise like a bubbling brook.

Proverbs 18:4 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters;

The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook.

Proverbs 18:4 — New Century Version (NCV)

Spoken words can be like deep water,

but wisdom is like a flowing stream.

Proverbs 18:4 — American Standard Version (ASV)

The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters;

The wellspring of wisdom is as a flowing brook.

Proverbs 18:4 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is a gushing brook.

Proverbs 18:4 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

The words of a person’s mouth are like deep waters. 

The fountain of wisdom is an overflowing stream. 

Proverbs 18:4 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters,

a flowing river, a fountain of wisdom.

Proverbs 18:4 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

The words of the mouth are deep waters;

the fountain of wisdom is a gushing stream.

Proverbs 18:4 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

Deep waters are words of the mouth of a man;

a gushing stream is a fountain of wisdom.

Proverbs 18:4 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

The words of a person’s mouth are like deep water.

But the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.


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