Proverbs 5:19

As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

In Context

18Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

20Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

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Cross References

Proverbs 5:15Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

Song of Solomon 2:17Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.

Song of Solomon 7:3Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:16-23

Conjugal Fidelity Enjoined. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange… Read the whole commentary →

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