Proverbs 5:16
Let your fountains be scattered abroad, || In broad places streams of waters.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
In Context
15Drink waters out of your own cistern, || Even flowing ones out of your own well.
17Let them be to you for yourself, || And not to strangers with you.
Cross References
Genesis 24:60and they bless Rebekah, and say to her, “You [are] our sister; become thousands of myriads, and your seed possesses the gate of those hating it.”
Judges 12:9and he has thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave away [in marriage], and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons; and he judges Israel [for] seven years.
Psalms 127:3Behold, sons [are] an inheritance of YHWH, || The fruit of the womb [is] a reward.
Isaiah 48:21And they have not thirsted in wastelands, || He has caused them to go on, || He has caused waters from a rock to flow to them, || Indeed, he cleaves a rock, and waters flow.
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 →