Proverbs 5:15
Drink water from your own cistern 1 and drink running water from your own well. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
In Context
14I was almost completely ruined 1 in the midst of the assembly, among the gathering of the people.” 1
16Should your springs overflow everywhere 1 and your streams of water flow in the public squares? 1
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:2But because of temptations for many immoral acts, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:2-15
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. 7… Read the whole commentary →