Proverbs 5:16
Like you would not waste good water by pouring it into the street, you should not have sex with other women. [MET, EUP]
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
In Context
17Enjoy having sex only with your wife; do not have sex with other women.
Cross References
Genesis 24:60Before they all left, they asked God to bless Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, we ask that Yahweh will cause you to have millions of descendants, and allow them to completely defeat [MET] all those that hate them.”
Judges 12:9He had 30 sons and 30 daughters. He forced all his daughters to marry men who were not in his clan, and brought women from outside his clan to marry his sons. He was the leader of the Israeli people for seven years.
Psalms 127:3Children are a gift that comes to parents from Yahweh; they are a reward/blessing from him.
Isaiah 48:21They were not thirsty when he led them through the desert, because he split open the rock and caused water to gush/flow out for them to drink.
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 →