Proverbs 5:17-18
Proverbs 5:17-20 The Message (MSG)
Your spring water is for you and you only, not to be passed around among strangers. Bless your fresh-flowing fountain! Enjoy the wife you married as a young man! Lovely as an angel, beautiful as a rose— don’t ever quit taking delight in her body. Never take her love for granted! Why would you trade enduring intimacies for cheap thrills with a prostitute? for dalliance with a promiscuous stranger?
Proverbs 5:17-18 King James Version (KJV)
Let them be only thine own, And not strangers' with thee. Let thy fountain be blessed: And rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs 5:17-18 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Let them be yours alone And not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 5:17-18 New Century Version (NCV)
These things are yours alone and shouldn’t be shared with strangers. Be happy with the wife you married when you were young. She gives you joy, as your fountain gives you water.
Proverbs 5:17-18 American Standard Version (ASV)
Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee. Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs 5:17-18 New International Version (NIV)
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers. May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 5:17-18 New King James Version (NKJV)
Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 5:17-18 Amplified Bible (AMP)
[Confine yourself to your own wife.] Let your children be yours alone, And not the children of strangers with you. Let your fountain (wife) be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity], And rejoice in the wife of your youth. [Song 4:12, 15]
Proverbs 5:17-18 New Living Translation (NLT)
You should reserve it for yourselves. Never share it with strangers. Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.