Proverbs 5:19
The lovely gazelle and the graceful chamois: let her bosom satisfy thee abundantly at all times; with her love be thou ravished continually.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
18Thy fountain will be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth,—
20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of an alien woman?
Cross References
Proverbs 5:15Drink water out of thy own cistern, and running waters out of thy own well.
Song of Solomon 2:17Until the day become cool, and the shadows flee away, turn about, my friend, and be thou like the roebuck or the fawn of the hinds upon the mountains of separation.
Song of Solomon 7:3(7:4) Thy two breasts are like two fawns, the twins of the roe.
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 →