Proverbs 5:18
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
World Messianic 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, not for strangers with you.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 4:12My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
Malachi 2:14Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your 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 →