Proverbs 5:16 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁶ Should your springs be scattered abroad, Rivers of water in the streets?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, And rivers of waters in the streets.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Should your offspring be dispersed abroad as water brooks in the streets?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Should your fountains flood outside, streams of water in the public squares?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Let your fountains be diverted far and wide, and divide your waters in the streets.

Proverbs 5:16 Cross References

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Riḇqah and said to her, “Let our sister become the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gates of those who hate them.”

Psalm 127:3

Look, children are an inheritance from יהוה, The fruit of the womb is the reward.

Psalm 128:3

Let your wife be As a fruit-bearing vine within your house, Your sons like olive plants all around your table.

Psalm 68:26

Bless Elohim in the assemblies, יהוה, from the fountain of Yisra’ĕl.

Proverbs 5:15

Drink water from your own cistern, And running water from your own well.

Proverbs 5:17

Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you.

Proverbs 5:18

Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth –

Proverbs 9:17

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

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 Leḇanon.

Isaiah 48:21

And they did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He caused waters from a rock to flow for them; He split the rock, and waters gushed out.

Deuteronomy 33:28

“Thus Yisra’ĕl dwells in safety, the fountain of Ya‛aqoḇ alone, in a land of grain and new wine. His heavens also drop down dew.

Judges 12:9

And he came to have thirty sons and thirty daughters – he sent abroad and brought in thirty daughters for his sons. And he ruled Yisra’ĕl seven years.