Proverbs 5:18

Let your fountain of water be truly your own; and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

In Context

17Let them be only your own, and let no stranger partake with you.

19Let your loving hart and your graceful colt company with you, and let her be considered your own, and be with you at all times; for ravished with her love you shall be greatly increased.

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 4:12My sister, my spouse is a garden enclosed; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed.

Malachi 2:14Yet you⌃ said, Therefore? Because the Lord has borne witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have forsaken, and 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 →

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