Proverbs 5:18
Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
In Context
17Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 4:12An enclosed garden is my sister, my spouse: an enclosed garden, a sealed fountain.
Malachi 2:14And you have said, “What is the reason for this?” It is because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have despised. Yet she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.
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 →