Proverbs 5:18

Proverbs chapter 5 · verse 18 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

v.17Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.

v.18This passage

v.19Asa loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Song of Solomon 4:15
Thou arta fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And flowing streams from Lebanon.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.
Malachi 2:14
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Song of Solomon 4:12
A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.