Proverbs 20:5
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Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.The intentions of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.
In other translations
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.The intentions of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Proverbs 18:4The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
- 1 Corinthians 2:11For 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.For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
- Psalm 64:6They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
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