Proverbs 5:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure 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 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 5:16

Should your springs flow in the streets, streams in the public squares?

Proverbs 5:17

They should be for you alone and not for you to share with strangers.

Proverbs 9:17

‘Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten secretly is tasty! ’

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting  life,  which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle  under the sun.

Song of Solomon 4:12

My sister, my bride, you are a locked garden – a locked garden  and a sealed spring.

Song of Solomon 4:15

You are a garden spring, a well of flowing water streaming from Lebanon.

Deuteronomy 24:5

‘When a man takes a bride, he must not go out with the army or be liable for any duty. He is free to stay at home for one year, so that he can bring joy to the wife he has married.