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Proverbs 5:18

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

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Parallel Translations

  • WEB World English Bible

    Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

  • KJV King James Version

    Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.

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Cross-references (4)

Passages linked to Proverbs 5:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
  • Malachi 2:14-15 Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
  • Song of Solomon 4:15 a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.
  • Song of Solomon 4:12 My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

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Explain this verse (13 sources)

Historical commentary, presented as a primary source — not an endorsement.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Which thou didst marry in thy youth.

Which thou didst marry in thy youth.

Thy children which shall come of thee in great abundance, showing that God blesseth marriage, and curseth whoredom.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Thy fountain; thy wife, as the next clause explains…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Let thy fountain be blessed,.... Thy wife; make her…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Fountain - Thy wife. Blessed - With children; for…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 18. Let thy fountain be blessed] יהי מקורך…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Pro 5:18. Let thy fountain be blessed — Thy…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Vein. Thou shalt have a numerous progeny, Psalm lxvii.…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain wife . . . youth--married in youth.
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 18. Let thy fountain be blessed — That is,…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (18) Let thy fountain . . .—As a reward…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 May your fountain be blessed

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