Proverbs 5:18
Let your wife be a source of great pleasure to you. ◄Be happy/ Enjoy sex► with the woman whom you married when you were both young.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
In Context
17Enjoy having sex only with your wife; do not have sex with other women.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 4:12My bride, you who are dearer to me than [MET] my sister, you are like [MET] a garden that is locked in order that other men cannot enter it; you are like [MET] a spring or a fountain that is covered in order that others may not drink from it.
Malachi 2:14You cry out, saying, “Why does Yahweh not like our offerings?” The answer is that Yahweh heard what each of you men solemnly promised to your wives when you were young. But you men have not done what you promised your wives; you sent them away, the ones to whom you made that agreement.
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 →