Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.

The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

The purpose in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of good sense will get it out.

The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.

For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

If your hater is in need of food, give him bread; and if he is in need of drink, give him water:

As cold water to a tired soul, so is good news from a far country.

Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.

The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.