Proverbs 5:19

She is as pretty and graceful as a young female deer. Allow her breasts to always satisfy you. Allow her lovemaking to excite you.

Translation for Translators

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 wife be a source of great pleasure to you. ◄Be happy/ Enjoy sex► with the woman whom you married when you were both young.

20My son, do not be [RHQ] captivated/charmed by an immoral woman! Do not fondle the breasts of another man’s wife!

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Cross References

Proverbs 5:15Like a man is refreshed by drinking water from his own well [MET], enjoy having sex [EUP] only with your own wife.

Song of Solomon 2:17You who love me, come and be like [SIM] a gazelle or like a young deer on the hills of Bether, and then flee like a deer at dawn tomorrow morning, when the darkness fades.

Song of Solomon 7:3Your breasts are as as beautiful as [SIM] two ◄fawns/young gazelles►.

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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