Proverbs 20:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. ”

Proverbs 20:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 under...
Proverbs 20:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Counsel in the heart of (c) man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. (c) It is hard to find out: for it is as deep waters, whose bottom cannot be found: yet the wise ma...
Proverbs 20:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9 ; Proverbs 20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thou...
Proverbs 20:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. Counsel in the heart of man - Men of the deepest and most comprehensive minds are rarely apt, unsolicite...
Proverbs 20:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Counsel in the heart of man, &c.— There is hardly any thing but may be compassed by wisdom: for though the designs and intentions of another man, especially one who has a deep understanding, ar...
Proverbs 20:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. Counsel in the heart of man (is like) deep water (the cunning of men's heart is like an unfathomab...
Proverbs 20:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
Proverbs 20:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water. — The wise thoughts of a “man,” fitly so-called (comp. Proverbs 18:4 ), may be hid deep in his breast, like the waters of a well, but a man of under...
Proverbs 20:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 21 IDLENESS "After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4 WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimps...
Proverbs 20:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Sobriety; Industry; Honesty Proverbs 20:1-15 Strong drink is the greatest of all foes to human happiness. It gains an influence over men by fair promises, but when once it is entrenched, it moc...
Proverbs 20:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 20:9 . This is the eternal challenge which has but one answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour. Verse Proverbs 20:14 . "It is bad, it is bad," is the d...
Proverbs 20:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. It...
Proverbs 20:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 dev...
Proverbs 20:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. Ver. 5. Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water. ] See Proverbs 18:4 . As the red rose, thoug...
Proverbs 20:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Counsel in the heart of man Either, 1st, Ability to give counsel; or, 2d, The design or purpose of doing something of importance; for the word עצה, here rendered counsel , is frequently used in bo...
Proverbs 20:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. A man's wisdom is here said to be of use to him for the pumping of other people, and...
Proverbs 20:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Counsel; either, 1. Wisdom or ability to give good counsel; or, 2. Designs or purposes of doing something of moment; for this word is frequently used in both senses, but the last seems fittest...
Proverbs 20:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 20:5 . Counsel . Delitzsch translates this word “ purpose ,” and understands it to refer to a secret plan. MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:5 DEEP SEA DREDGING I....
Proverbs 20:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:1 . Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging. In the book of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1-2 . Cyrus, afte...
Proverbs 20:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. The getting of wisdom from the wise: I. Wisdom to man is a very valuable thing. 1. It improves the...
Proverbs 20:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker; or, scorner, the word ( luts ) being taken up from the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing what men do under its infl...
Proverbs 20:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 5. Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, for his plans are hidden in his innermost heart; but a man of understanding, one who knows how to deal with men, will draw it out, he will...
Proverbs 20:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 2:11 ; Proverbs 18:4 ; Psalms 64:6
Proverbs 20:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Counsel — Designs of doing something of moment. Deep water — Is secret and hard to be discovered.

Proverbs 20:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Proverbs 20:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 20:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 20:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 20:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 20:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 20:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 20:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 20:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 20:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 20:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 20:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 20:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 20:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 20:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes