Proverbs 5:18

Proverbs 5:18

16 Should your fountains be dispersed abroad,
¹Streams of water in the streets?

17 Let them be only your own,
And not for strangers with you.

18 Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice with ^athe wife of your youth.

19 ^aAs a loving deer and a graceful doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
And always be¹ enraptured with her love.

20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by ^aan immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?

21 ^aFor the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord,
And He¹ ponders all his paths.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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wife . . . youth—married in youth.

Proverbs 5:15-20

By figures, in which well, cistern, and fountain [Proverbs 5:15, Proverbs 5:18] represent the wife, and rivers of waters [Proverbs 5:16] the children, men are exhorted to constancy and satisfaction in lawful conjugal enjoyments. In Proverbs 5:16, fountains (in the plural) rather denote the produce or waters of a spring, literally, "what is from a spring," and corresponds with "rivers of waters."

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Proverbs 5:18:**

Proverbs 5:15-20
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Malachi 2:14

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