Proverbs 5:16
Let your fountains be diverted far and wide, and divide your waters in the streets.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
In Context
15Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.
17Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you.
Cross References
Genesis 24:60wishing prosperity for their sister, by saying: “You are our sister. May you increase to thousands of thousands. And may your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
Judges 12:9He had thirty sons, and the same number of daughters, whom he sent away to be given to husbands. And he accepted wives for his sons of the same number, bringing them into his house. And he judged Israel for seven years.
Psalms 127:3Your wife is like an abundant vine on the sides of your house. Your sons are like young olive trees surrounding your table.
Isaiah 48:21They did not thirst in the desert, when he led them out. He produced water from the rock for them. For he split the rock, and the waters flowed out.
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 →