Proverbs 5:16

In 11 translations

BSB

Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

KJV

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

WEB

Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

ASV

Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?

LSV

Let your fountains be scattered abroad, || In broad places streams of waters.

YLT

Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.

DBY

Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways.

DRC

Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.

GNV

Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.

JPS

Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets.

LXXE

Let not waters out of thy fountain be spilt by thee, but let thy waters go into thy streets.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

יָפ֣וּצוּ מַעְיְנֹתֶ֣יךָ ח֑וּצָה בָּ֝רְחֹב֗וֹת פַּלְגֵי־מָֽיִם׃

LXX-Br

Μὴ ὑπερεκχείσθω σοι ὕδατα ἐκ τῆς σῆς πηγῆς, εἰς δὲ σὰς πλατείας διαπορευέσθω τὰ σὰ ὕδατα.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
• Psalms 127:3Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
• Isaiah 48:21They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out.
• Psalms 68:26Bless God in the great congregation; bless the LORD from the fountain of Israel.
• Deuteronomy 33:28So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.
• Judges 12:9He had thirty sons, as well as thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage to men outside his clan; and for his sons he brought back thirty wives from elsewhere. Ibzan judged Israel seven years.
• Genesis 24:60And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”

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