Proverbs 5:19
A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
20Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Cross References
Proverbs 5:15Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
Song of Solomon 2:17Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
Song of Solomon 7:3Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
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 →