Proverbs 5:18 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with 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:

Proverbs 5:18 Cross References

Proverbs 5:16

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

Proverbs 5:17

And not for strangers with you.

Proverbs 9:17

“Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Ecclesiastes 9:9

See life with the wife whom you love all the days of your futile life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of futility. For that is your share in life, and in your toil which you have laboured under the sun.

Song of Solomon 4:12

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

Song of Solomon 4:15

A garden spring, A well of living waters, And streams from Leḇ

Deuteronomy 24:5

“When a man has taken a new wife, let him not go out into the army nor let any matter be imposed upon him. He shall be exempt one year for the sake of his home, to rejoice with his wife whom he has taken.