Parallel Verses English Standard Version The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe. King James Bible The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. American Standard Version The name of Jehovah is a strong tower; The righteous runneth into it, and is safe. Douay-Rheims Bible The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the just runneth to it, and shall be exalted. English Revised Version The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. Webster's Bible Translation The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. Proverbs 18:10 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament4 Deep waters are the words from a man's mouth, A bubbling brook, a fountain of wisdom. Earlier, we added to hominis the supplement sc. sapientis, but then an unnecessary word would be used, and that which is necessary omitted. Rather it might be said that אישׁ is meant in an ideal sense; but thus meant, אישׁ, like גּבר, denotes the valiant man, but not man as he ought to be, or the man of honour; and besides, a man may be a man of honour without there being said of him what this proverb expresses. Ewald comes nearer the case when he translates, "deep waters are the heart-words of many." Heart-words - what an unbiblical expression! The lxx, which translates λόγος ἐν καρδίᾳ, has not read דברי לב, but דבר בלב (as Proverbs 20:5, עצה בלב־). But that "of many" is certainly not a right translation, yet right in so far as אישׁ (as at Proverbs 12:14) is thought of as made prominent: the proverb expresses, in accordance with the form of narrative proverbs which present an example, what occurs in actual life, and is observed. Three different things are said of the words from a man's mouth: they are deep waters, for their meaning does not lie on the surface, but can be perceived only by penetrating into the secret motives and aims of him who speaks; they are a bubbling brook, which freshly and powerfully gushes forth to him who feels this flow of words, for in this brook there never fails an always new gush of living water; it is a fountain or well of wisdom, from which wisdom flows forth, and whence wisdom is to be drawn. Hitzig supposes that the distich is antithetic; מים עמקּים, or rather מי מעמקּים, "waters of the deep," are cistern waters; on the contrary, "a welling brook is a fountain of wisdom." But עמק means deep, not deepened, and deep water is the contrast of shallow water; a cistern also may be deep (cf. Proverbs 22:14), but deep water is such as is deep, whether it be in the ocean or in a ditch. 4b also does not suggest a cistern, for thereby it would be indicated that the description, דברי פי־אישׁ, is not here continued; the "fountain of wisdom" does not form a proper parallel or an antithesis to this subject, since this much rather would require the placing in contrast of deep and shallow, of exhausted (drained out) and perennial. And: the fountain is a brook, the well a stream - who would thus express himself! We have thus neither an antithetic nor a synonymous (lxx after the phrase ἀναπηδῶν, Jerome, Venet., Luth.), but an integral distich before us; and this leads us to consider what depths of thought, what riches of contents, what power of spiritual and moral advancement, may lie in the words of a man. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge name a strong Psalm 61:3,4 For you have been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy... Psalm 91:2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Isaiah 26:4 Trust you in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: the righteous Psalm 56:3,4 What time I am afraid, I will trust in you... safe or set aloft Cross References Exodus 3:15 God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel: 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations. 2 Samuel 22:2 He said, "The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, 2 Samuel 22:3 my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence. Psalm 18:2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. Psalm 61:3 for you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy. Psalm 91:2 I will say to the LORD, "My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust." Psalm 144:2 he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. Jump to Previous High Righteous Run Runneth Running Runs Safe Strength Strong Tower UprightJump to Next High Righteous Run Runneth Running Runs Safe Strength Strong Tower UprightLinks Proverbs 18:10 NIVProverbs 18:10 NLT Proverbs 18:10 ESV Proverbs 18:10 NASB Proverbs 18:10 KJV Proverbs 18:10 Bible Apps Proverbs 18:10 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 18:10 Chinese Bible Proverbs 18:10 French Bible Proverbs 18:10 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |