Proverbs 18:4
Like deep waters are the words of a [wise] man's mouth, and a bubbling brook is the well-spring of wisdom.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
In Context
3When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with dishonorable acts, disgrace.
5It is not good to favor the person of the wicked, to wrest [the cause of the] righteous in judgment.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:11A source of life is the mouth of the righteous; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.
Proverbs 16:22Intelligence is a source of life unto its possessor; but the correction of fools is folly.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 18:4
3 When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. This may include a double sense:—1. That wicked people are scornful people, and put contempt upon others. When the wicked comes into any company, comes into the schools of wisdom or into the assemblies for religious worship, then comes contempt of God, of his people and ministers, and of every thing that is said and done. You can expect no other from those that are profane than that they will be scoffers; they will be an ignominy and… Read the whole commentary →