Proverbs 5:18
May your fountain be blessed 1 and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth, 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
In Context
17Let them be for yourself alone 1 and not for strangers with you. 1
Cross References
Song of Solomon 4:12My sister, my bride is a garden locked up, 1 a garden locked up, a spring that is sealed. 1
Malachi 2:14But you say, “Why does he not?” Because Yahweh was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have been faithless, even though she was your companion and your wife by covenant.
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 →