5 The intentions of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:5
The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures
The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.
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Verse 5
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The intentions עֵצָ֣ה H6098 Noun - feminine singular of a man’s אִ֑ישׁ H376 Noun - masculine singular heart בְלֶב־ H3820 Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct are deep עֲ֭מֻקִּים H6013 Adjective - masculine plural waters מַ֣יִם H4325 Noun - masculine plural but a man וְאִ֖ישׁ H376 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct of understanding תְּבוּנָ֣ה H8394 Noun - feminine singular draws them out יִדְלֶֽנָּה׃ H1802 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular