Proverbs 5:16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

English Standard Version
Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?

New American Standard Bible
Should your springs be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets?

King James Bible
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Should your springs flow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

International Standard Version
Should your springs flow outside, or streams of water in the street?

American Standard Version
Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.

Darby Bible Translation
Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways.

Young's Literal Translation
Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.

Cross References

Proverbs 5:15
Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.

Proverbs 5:17
Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.

Proverbs 5:18
Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

Proverbs 9:17
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Song of Solomon 4:12
A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

Song of Solomon 4:15
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

5:15-23 Lawful marriage is a means God has appointed to keep from these destructive vices. But we are not properly united, except as we attend to God's word, seeking his direction and blessing, and acting with affection. Ever remember, that though secret sins may escape the eyes of our fellow-creatures, yet a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, who not only sees, but ponders all his goings. Those who are so foolish as to choose the way of sin, are justly left of God to themselves, to go on in the way to destruction.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

15-20. By figures, in which well, cistern, and fountain [Pr 5:15, 18] represent the wife, and rivers of waters [Pr 5:16] the children, men are exhorted to constancy and satisfaction in lawful conjugal enjoyments. In Pr 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."