Proverbs 5:18

Contemporary English Version

Be happy with the wife you married when you were young.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Let your fountain be blessed,and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.

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

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

English Standard Version
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

New Century Version
Be happy with the wife you married when you were young. She gives you joy, as your fountain gives you water.

New English Translation
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife—

Amplified Bible
Let your fountain (wife) be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity], And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

New American Standard Bible
Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.

Legacy Standard Bible
Let your fountain be blessed,And be glad in the wife of your youth.

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

Complete Jewish Bible
Let your fountain, the wife of your youth, be blessed; find joy in her —

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Be happy with your own wife. Enjoy the woman you married while you were young.

George Lamsa Translation
Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Good News Translation
So be happy with your wife and find your joy with the woman you married—

Lexham English Bible
May your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Literal Translation
let your fountains be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let thy well be blessed, and be glad with the wife of thy youth.

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

Bible in Basic English
Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.

King James Version (1611)
Let thy fountaine be blessed: and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let thy well be blessed, and be glad with the wyfe of thy youth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let thy fountain of water be truly thine own; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

English Revised Version
Let thy fountain be blessed; and rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thi veyne be blessid; and be thou glad with the womman of thi yong wexynge age.

Update Bible Version
Let your fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

New King James Version
Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth.

New Living Translation
Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

New Life Bible
Let your well be honored, and be happy with the wife you married when you were young.

New Revised Standard
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let thy well-spring be blessed, - and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:

Revised Standard Version
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

Young's Literal Translation
Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ You should be faithful to your wife, just as you take water from your own well. ¹⁶ And don't be like a stream from which just any woman may take a drink. ¹⁷ Save yourself for your wife and don't have sex with other women. ¹⁸ Be happy with the wife you married when you were young. ¹⁹ She is beautiful and graceful, just like a deer; you should be attracted to her and stay deeply in love. ²⁰ Don't go crazy over a woman who is unfaithful to her own husband! ²¹ The Lord sees everything, and he watches us closely. ²² Sinners are trapped and caught by their own evil deeds. ²³ They get lost and die because of their foolishness and lack of self-control.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

rejoice: Ecclesiastes 9:9, Malachi 2:14, Malachi 2:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 26:8 - sporting Deuteronomy 24:5 - cheer up 2 Samuel 12:3 - one little 1 Chronicles 14:3 - took Proverbs 2:17 - the guide Proverbs 5:15 - General Isaiah 54:6 - a wife 1 Corinthians 7:2 - to avoid Ephesians 5:25 - love Colossians 3:19 - love

Cross-References

Genesis 4:17
Later, Cain and his wife had a son named Enoch. At the time Cain was building a town, and so he named it Enoch after his son.

Genesis 5:14
and died at the age of nine hundred ten.

Genesis 5:15
When Mahalalel was sixty-five, he had a son named Jared.

Luke 3:37
Methuselah, Enoch, Jared, Mahalaleel, Kenan,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let thy fountain be blessed,.... Thy wife; make her happy by keeping to her and from others; by behaving in a loving, affable, and respectful manner to her; by living comfortably with her, and providing well for her and her children: or reckon her a happiness, a blessing that God has bestowed; or

"thy fountain shall be blessed,''

as the Targum; that is, with a numerous offspring, which was always reckoned a blessedness, and was generally the happiness of virtuous women, when harlots were barren;

and rejoice with the wife of thy youth; taken to be a wife in youth, and lived with ever since; do not despise her, nor divorce her, even in old age, but delight in her company now as ever; carry it not morosely and churlishly to her, but express a joy and pleasure in her; see Ecclesiastes 9:9. Jarchi interprets this of the law learned in youth; but it might be much better interpreted of the pure apostolic church of Christ, "the beulah", to whom her sons are married,

Isaiah 62:4; to whom they should cleave with delight and pleasure, and not follow the antichristian harlot.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 5:18. Let thy fountain be blessed — יהי מקורך ברוך yehi mekorecha baruch. Sit vena tua benedicta. Thy vein; that which carries off streams from the fountain of animal life, in order to disperse them abroad, and through the streets. How delicate and correct is the allusion here! But anatomical allusions must not be pressed into detail in a commentary on Scripture.