Proverbs 5:18 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your 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:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:

Proverbs 5:18 Cross References

Proverbs 5:16

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

Proverbs 5:17

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

Proverbs 9:17

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

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

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.

Deuteronomy 24:5

“When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.