5The 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 intentionsעֵצָ֣הH6098Noun - feminine singularof a man’sאִ֑ישׁH376Noun - masculine singularheartבְלֶב־H3820Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular constructare deepעֲ֭מֻקִּיםH6013Adjective - masculine pluralwatersמַ֣יִםH4325Noun - masculine pluralbut a manוְאִ֖ישׁH376Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular constructof understandingתְּבוּנָ֣הH8394Noun - feminine singulardraws them outיִדְלֶֽנָּה׃H1802Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular