Proverbs 5:18

In 11 translations

BSB

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Let your fountain be blessed, || And rejoice because of the wife of your youth,

YLT

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

DBY

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

DRC

Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:

GNV

Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.

JPS

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

LXXE

Let thy fountain of water be truly thine own; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Word by word Hebrew · tap a word

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

יְהִֽי־מְקוֹרְךָ֥ בָר֑וּךְ וּ֝שְׂמַ֗ח מֵאֵ֥שֶׁת נְעוּרֶֽךָ׃

LXX-Br

Ἡ πηγή σου τοῦ ὕδατος ἔστω σοι ἰδία, καὶ συνευφραίνου μετὰ γυναικὸς τῆς ἐκ νεότητός σου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Ecclesiastes 9:9Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.
• Malachi 2:14–15Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Has not the LORD made…
• Song of Songs 4:15You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
• Song of Songs 4:12My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.

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