Proverbs 5:18
May your spring of water be blessed, and may you enjoy the wife you married when you were young.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
In Context
17Keep them for yourselves alone. They're not for you to share with strangers.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 4:12My sister, my bride, is a locked garden, a spring of water that is closed, a fountain that is sealed.
Malachi 2:14“Why not?” you ask. Because the Lord witnessed the vows you and your wife exchanged when you were young. You were unfaithful to her, your wife and partner joined to you by marriage contract.
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 →