Proverbs 18:4 · KJV
“The words of a man's mouth {are as} deep waters, {and} the wellspring of wisdom {as} a flowing brook.”
— Proverbs 18:4
When the wicked cometh, {then} cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
{It is} not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
Proverbs 18 — Context
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
3When the wicked cometh, {then} cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
4The words of a man's mouth {are as} deep waters, {and} the wellspring of wisdom {as} a flowing brook.
5{It is} not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
6A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Cross References
Proverbs 20:5
Counsel in the heart of man {is like} deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of a righteous {man is} a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech {be} alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
John 4:14
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Proverbs 13:14
The law of the wise {is} a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
John 7:38-39
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.