Proverbs 18:4
The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters; the wellspring of wisdom is as a flowing brook.
Revised Version 1895
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, there cometh also contempt, and with ignominy cometh reproach.
5To accept the person of the wicked is not good, nor to turn aside the righteous in judgment.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:11The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 16:22Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the correction of fools is their folly.
Matthew 12:34Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
John 7:38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Colossians 4:6Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
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 →