The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
⛓ Read Proverbs 18 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook' and Proverbs' fountain-of-life sayings supply the sapiential backdrop for water = life/wisdom. Faint verbal contact; contributes to the broader well/fountain field.
Low confidence'The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a flowing stream' may feed the 'rivers of living water... from within him' image, linking inner source to wisdom/teaching. Low volume, offered because John's living-water motif elsewhere blends Wisdom and Spirit. Contested.
Low confidence