Proverbs 18:4 – The Importance of Words

BIBLE TEXT

Proverbs 18:4

SUMMARY

The words we speak can have radically different effects.

ANALYSIS

Proverbs 18:4 makes its point by invoking the two radically different effects of water throughout the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.  Water can be the chaotic, death delivering waters like the flood or the life-giving waters of various rivers and fountains.  The words we speak can function in these same ways. See also Proverbs 18:21.