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Proverbs 5:18
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Let your fountain be blessed,and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
Be happy with the wife you married when you were young. She gives you joy, as your fountain gives you water.
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife—
Let your fountain (wife) be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity], And rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
Let your fountain be blessed,And be glad in the wife of your youth.
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
Be happy with the wife you married when you were young.
Let your fountain, the wife of your youth, be blessed; find joy in her —
Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
Be happy with your own wife. Enjoy the woman you married while you were young.
Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice in the wife of your youth.
So be happy with your wife and find your joy with the woman you married—
May your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.
let your fountains be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth;
Let thy well be blessed, and be glad with the wife of thy youth.
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
Let thy fountaine be blessed: and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
Let thy well be blessed, and be glad with the wyfe of thy youth.
Let thy fountain of water be truly thine own; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Let thy fountain be blessed; and rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
Thi veyne be blessid; and be thou glad with the womman of thi yong wexynge age.
Let your fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth.
Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Let your well be honored, and be happy with the wife you married when you were young.
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
Let thy well-spring be blessed, - and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth: -
Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,
Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
rejoice: Ecclesiastes 9:9, Malachi 2:14, Malachi 2:15
Reciprocal: Genesis 26:8 - sporting Deuteronomy 24:5 - cheer up 2 Samuel 12:3 - one little 1 Chronicles 14:3 - took Proverbs 2:17 - the guide Proverbs 5:15 - General Isaiah 54:6 - a wife 1 Corinthians 7:2 - to avoid Ephesians 5:25 - love Colossians 3:19 - love
Cross-References
Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
Thus all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.
When Ma-hal'alel had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Jared.
Enoch, Methu'selah, Lamech;
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Maha'lale-el, the son of Ca-i'nan,
Gill's Notes on the 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
"thy fountain shall be blessed,''
as the Targum; that is, with a numerous offspring, which was always reckoned a blessedness, and was generally the happiness of virtuous women, when harlots were barren;
and rejoice with the wife of thy youth; taken to be a wife in youth, and lived with ever since; do not despise her, nor divorce her, even in old age, but delight in her company now as ever; carry it not morosely and churlishly to her, but express a joy and pleasure in her; see Ecclesiastes 9:9. Jarchi interprets this of the law learned in youth; but it might be much better interpreted of the pure apostolic church of Christ, "the beulah", to whom her sons are married,
Isaiah 62:4; to whom they should cleave with delight and pleasure, and not follow the antichristian harlot.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 5:18. 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.
