Proverbs 5:18
◄  Proverbs 5:18  ►
New International Version (©2011)
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Let your fountain be blessed and enjoy the wife of your youth.

NET Bible (©2006)
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife--

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And your fountain shall be blessed and rejoice with the wife of your youth-

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Let your own fountain be blessed, and enjoy the girl you married when you were young,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

American King James Version
Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

American Standard Version
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:

Darby Bible Translation
Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.

English Revised Version
Let thy fountain be blessed; and rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

World English Bible
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Young's Literal Translation
Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let thy fountain be blessed,.... Thy wife; make her happy by keeping to her and from others; by behaving in a loving, affable, and respectful manner to her; by living comfortably with her, and providing well for her and her children: or reckon her a happiness, a blessing that God has bestowed; or

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Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

With Proverbs 5:18 is introduced anew the praise of conjugal love. These three verses, Proverbs 5:18-21, have the same course of thought as Proverbs 5:15-17.

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Let thy fountain be blessed - יהי מקורך ברוך yehi mekorecha baruch. Sit vena tua benedicta. Thy vein; that which carries off streams from the fountain of animal life, in order to disperse them abroad, and through the streets. How delicate and correct is the allusion here! But anatomical allusions must not be pressed into detail in a commentary on Scripture.

Geneva Study Bible

Let thy {k} fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy {l} youth.

(k) Your children who will come from you in great abundance showing that God blesses marriage and curses whoredom.

(l) Who you married in your youth.

Wesley's Notes

5:18 Fountain - Thy wife. Blessed - With children; for barrenness was esteemed a curse among the Israelites.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

18. wife … youth-married in youth.

Proverbs 5:18 Parallel Commentaries
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Avoid Immorality
…17Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you. 18Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth. 19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with her love. …

Deuteronomy 24:5 If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.
Proverbs 5:16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
Proverbs 5:17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
Proverbs 9:17 "Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!"
Ecclesiastes 9:9 Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun--all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.
Song of Solomon 4:12 You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride; you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.
Song of Solomon 4:15 You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon.
Malachi 2:14 You ask, "Why?" It is because the LORD is the witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.