Kawikaan 5:18

Filipino Cebuano Bible

18 Papanalangini ang imong tuburan; Ug pagmalipayon diha sa asawa sa imong pagkabatan-on.

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

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.