Proverbs 20:5
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water,.... Pure and undisturbed, but secret, hidden, and hard to be come at: such are the things of the spirit of a man, the thoughts of his mind, the devices…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
The contest between reticence on the one side and pertinacity in search on the other is represented as by a parable. The well may be very deep (compare the marginal reference), but the man of…
Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714
Matthew Henry
A man's wisdom is here said to be of use to him for the pumping of other people, and diving into them, 1. To get the knowledge of them. Though men's counsels and designs are ever so carefully…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
will draw it out as from a well, as the Queen of Sheba did, 1Kings 10.