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


In Context

15 Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

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

17 Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

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

19 A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your 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 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.