15 You should be faithful

to your wife,

just as you take water

from your own well.*5.15 own well: In biblical times water was scarce and wells were carefully guarded.

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!