Proverbs 20:5
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Counsel Deep Draw Draweth Draws Good Heart Mind Plan Purpose Purposes Sense Understanding Water Waters
Parallel Verses
English Standard Version
The purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

New American Standard Bible
A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water, But a man of understanding draws it out.

King James Bible
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Counsel in a man's heart is deep water; but a man of understanding draws it out.

International Standard Version
The intentions of a person's heart are deep waters, but a discerning person reveals them.

NET Bible
Counsel in a person's heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The word in the heart of the King is deep, and a wise man will draw it out.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A motive in the human heart is like deep water, and a person who has understanding draws it out.

King James 2000 Bible
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

American King James Version
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

American Standard Version
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.

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

Darby Bible Translation
Counsel in the heart of man is deep water, and a man of understanding draweth it out.

English Revised Version
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Webster's Bible Translation
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

World English Bible
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Young's Literal Translation
Counsel in the heart of a man is deep water, And a man of understanding draweth it up.
Lexicon
Counsel
`etsah  (ay-tsaw')
advice; by implication, plan; also prudence -- advice, advisement, counsel(l-(or), purpose.
in the heart
leb  (labe)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect
of man
'iysh  (eesh)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
is like deep
`amoq  (aw-moke')
deep -- (exceeding) deep (thing).
water
mayim  (mah'-yim)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen -- + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring).
but a man
'iysh  (eesh)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
of understanding
tabuwn  (taw-boon')
intelligence; by implication, an argument; by extension, caprice -- discretion, reason, skilfulness, understanding, wisdom.
will draw it out
dalah  (daw-law')
to dangle, i.e. to let down a bucket (for drawing out water); figuratively, to deliver -- draw (out), enough, lift up.
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