Proverbs 5:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, And rivers of waters in the streets.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Should your offspring be dispersed abroad as water brooks in the streets?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Should your fountains flood outside, streams of water in the public squares?

Catholic Public Domain Version

Let your fountains be diverted far and wide, and divide your waters in the streets.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.

Proverbs 5:16 Cross References

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, become thousands of myriads; may your offspring gain possession of the gates of their foes.”

Psalm 127:3

Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Psalm 128:3

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

Psalm 68:26

“Bless God in the great congregation, the Lord, O you who are of Israel’s fountain!”

Proverbs 5:15

Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

Proverbs 5:17

Let them be for yourself alone and not for sharing with strangers.

Proverbs 5:18

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

Proverbs 9:17

“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Song of Solomon 4:12

A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a garden locked, a fountain sealed.

Song of Solomon 4:15

a garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

Isaiah 48:21

They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split open the rock, and the water gushed out.

Deuteronomy 33:28

So Israel lives in safety, untroubled is Jacob’s abode in a land of grain and wine, where the heavens drop down dew.

Judges 12:9

He had thirty sons. He gave his thirty daughters in marriage outside his clan and brought in thirty young women from outside for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.