Verse List for PROV 18:4

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B I ◄ ← Prov 18:4 ↓ → ► ═ ©

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=important Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) The utterances from a person’s mouth are deep waters. ⇔ ≈ A fountain of wisdom produces a flowing stream.

OET-LV are_waters deep the_words/messages _of the_mouth _of a _person a _wadi flowing a _fountain _of wisdom.

ULT The words of the mouth of a man, are deep waters; ⇔ a fountain of wisdom, is a gushing stream.

UST What wise people say is as profound as a deep ocean. ⇔  Wise people are always saying wise things, like a fountain that flows in a constant stream.

BSB & MSB The words of a man ’s mouth are deep waters; ⇔  the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. ⇔  The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

NET The words of a person’s mouth are like deep waters, ⇔ and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

LSV The words of a man’s mouth [are] deep waters,
The fountain of wisdom [is] a flowing brook.

FBV People's words can be profound like deep waters, a gushing stream that is the source of wisdom.

T4T ⇔  What wise people say is like a deep ocean that you can never get to the bottom of [MET], ⇔  and it refreshes us like water from a rapidly flowing stream.

LEB • Deep waters are words of the mouth of a man;
• a gushing stream is a fountain of wisdom.

BBE The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters: the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.

Moff The words of wise men are a deep pool, ⇔  a flowing stream, a fountain of life.

JPS The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters; a flowing brook, a fountain of wisdom.

ASV The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters; ⇔ The wellspring of wisdom is as a flowing brook.

DRA Words from the mouth of a men are as deep water: and the fountain of wisdom as an overflowing stream.

YLT Deep waters [are] the words of a man's mouth, The fountain of wisdom [is] a flowing brook.

Drby The words of a man's mouth are deep waters, [and] the fountain of wisdom is a gushing brook.

RV The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters; the wellspring of wisdom is as a flowing brook.

SLT Deep waters are the words of man’s mouth, the fountain of wisdom a gushing stream.

Wbstr The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the well-spring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

KJB-1769 The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

KJB-1611 The words of a mans mouth, are as deepe waters, and the well-spring of wisedome as a flowing brooke.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps The wordes of a wyse mans mouth are lyke deepe waters: and the well of wisdome is like a full streame.
(The words of a wise mans mouth are like deep waters: and the well of wisdom is like a full stream.)

Gnva The words of a mans mouth are like deepe waters, and the welspring of wisdome is like a flowing riuer.
(The words of a mans mouth are like deep waters, and the welspring of wisdom is like a flowing river.)

Cvdl The wordes of a mas mouth are like depe waters, and the well of wy?dome is like a full streame.
(The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters, and the well of wisdom is like a full stream.)

Wycl Deep watir is the wordis of the mouth of a man; and a stronde fletinge ouer is the welle of wisdom.
(Deep water is the words of the mouth of a man; and a stream/river fletinge over is the well of wisdom.)

Luth Die Worte in eines Munde sind wie tiefe Wasser, und die Quelle der Weisheit ist ein voller Strom.
(The words in one/a mouth are as/like depth water, and the source/spring(n) the/of_the wise_(people) is a fuller river/power.)

ClVg Aqua profunda verba ex ore viri, et torrens redundans fons sapientiæ.[fn]
(Aqua deep words from vocally men, and torrent redundans source/spring of_wisdom.)

UHB מַ֣יִם עֲ֭מֻקִּים דִּבְרֵ֣י פִי־אִ֑ישׁ נַ֥חַל נֹ֝בֵ֗עַ מְק֣וֹר חָכְמָֽה׃ ‡

BrLXX Ὕδωρ βαθὺ λόγος ἐν καρδίᾳ ἀνδρὸς, ποταμὸς δὲ ἀναπηδύει καὶ πηγὴ ζωῆς.

BrTr A word in the heart of a man is a deep water, and a river and fountain of life spring forth.