Proverbs 5:18 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Let your fountain [of human life] be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity], and rejoice in the wife of your youth.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:

Proverbs 5:18 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labor which thou takest under the sun.

Song of Solomon 4:15

a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 4:12

A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

Deuteronomy 24:5

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

Proverbs 5:16

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

Proverbs 5:17

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

Proverbs 9:17

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.