Proverbs 5:19

Let 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.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

18Let your fountain of water be truly your own; and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

20Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold yourself in the arms of a woman not your own.

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Cross References

Proverbs 5:15Drink waters out of your own vessels, and out of your own springing wells.

Song of Solomon 2:17Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, turn, my kinsman, be you like to a roe or young hart on the mountains of the ravines.

Song of Solomon 7:3Your two breasts are as two twin fawns.

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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