Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.

Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

Listen, for I will speak excellent things, and my lips will utter what is right.

When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;

A generous person will be enriched, and the one who provides water for others will himself be satisfied.

Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; stop it before strife breaks out!

Counsel in a person's heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.

The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,

Like cold water to a weary person, so is good news from a distant land.

As in water the face is reflected as a face, so a person's heart reflects the person.

the grave, the barren womb, land that is not satisfied with water, and fire that never says, "Enough!"