New Revised Standard Version
The purposes in the human mind are like deep water, but the intelligent will draw them out.

Contemporary English Version
Someone's thoughts may be as deep as the ocean, but if you are smart, you will discover them.

New American Bible
The intention of the human heart is deep water, but the intelligent draw it forth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out.

Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out.

Proverbs 18:4 Words from the mouth of a man are as deep water: and the fountain of wisdom is an overflowing stream.

Psalm 64:6 They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:

1 Corinthians 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God, no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God.