18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.


In Context

15 Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.

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

17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

19 A loving doe, a graceful deer- may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love.

20 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another man's wife?

Proverbs 5:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:18Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:18Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:18Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:18Let thy fountain be blessed; and rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:18Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:18Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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