Catholic Public Domain Version
"Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth: "
— Proverbs 5:18, Catholic Public Domain Version
Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.
Let your fountains be diverted far and wide, and divide your waters in the streets.
Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you.
Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:
a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.
Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?
The Lord beholds the ways of man, and he considers all his steps.