NET Bible
"May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth–"
— Proverbs 5:18, NET Bible
“Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.”
“Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. ”
“Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.”
“Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:”
“Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.”
“Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.”
Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth–
a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.
But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD’s eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person’s paths.