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Proverbs 5:16
16You would not pour your good water onto the streets. So do not waste your love on other women.
Proverbs 5:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
- New International Version (NIV)Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets?
Context of Proverbs 5:16
14Now I will be completely ashamed when I meet together with all the people.’ 15You should enjoy your own wife, as you enjoy clean water to drink. You would not pour your good water onto the streets. So do not waste your love on other women. 17Keep it for you and your wife. Do not share it with other women. 18Enjoy sex with your own wife. May the wife that you married when you were young continue to give you joy.
Read all of Proverbs 5Proverbs 5:16 word by word
יָפ֣וּצוּ מַעְיְנֹתֶ֣יךָ ח֑וּצָה בָּ֝רְחֹב֗וֹת פַּלְגֵי־מָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 5:16
- Deuteronomy 33:28So Israel's people can now live safely. Jacob's descendants have a safe place to live. They have a land that will give them grain and wine. Rain falls from the sky to make the ground wet.
- Psalms 68:26They all sing, ‘Praise God, all you crowd of people! All you people of Israel, praise the Lord!’
- Isaiah 48:21When he led them through the desert, they did not become thirsty. He broke open a rock for them, so that water poured out. They could drink as much as they needed.
- Genesis 24:60As Rebekah was leaving, her brother and her mother blessed her. They said, ‘Our sister, may you become the mother of millions of descendants. May your descendants win against their enemies, and may they go into their enemies' cities.’
- Judges 12:9He had 30 sons and 30 daughters. He let his daughters marry men from other clans. He also brought 30 young women from other clans to marry his sons. Ibzan led Israel for seven years.
- Psalms 127:3Children are a gift from the Lord. He blesses us with descendants.
- Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a vine that grows in your home, and it gives many grapes. Your children will sit around your table, like the branches of an olive tree that are around you.
Commentaries on Proverbs 5:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad - Let thy children lawfully begotten be numerous.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Wedded love streams forth in blessing on all around, on children and on neighbors and ill the streets, precisely because the wife‘s true love is given to the husband only.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-23Verses 15-23 Lawful marriage is a means God has appointed to keep from these destructive vices. But we are not properly united, except as we attend to God's word, seeking his direction and blessing, and acting with affection. Ever remember, that though secret sins may escape the eyes of our fellow-creatures, yet a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, who not only sees, but ponders all his goings. Those who are so foolish as to choose the way of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15-18To drink from one's own well (see also Song 4:12, 15) means to enjoy sexual relations within marriage. Instead of spending sexual energy on immoral women, a man should build a healthy sexual relationship with his wife. Sex should not be shared with strangers. This honors marriage (Genesis 2:22–25) and follows the seventh commandment (Exodus 20:14 and Deuteronomy 5:18).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 15-2015-20. By figures, in which well, cistern, and fountain [Pr 5:15, 18] represent the wife, and rivers of waters [Pr 5:16] the children, men are exhorted to constancy and satisfaction in lawful conjugal enjoyments. In Pr 5:16, fountains (in the plural) rather denote the produce or waters of a spring, literally, "what is from a spring," and corresponds with "rivers of waters."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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