Enjoy Marriage
15 Drink water from your own cistern,
water flowing from your own well. 5:15 Sg 4:12,15
16 Should your springs flow in the streets,
streams in the public squares? 5:16 Pr 7:12
17 They should be for you alone
and not for you to share with strangers.
18 Let your fountain be blessed,
and take pleasure in the wife of your youth. 5:18 Ec 9:9; Mal 2:14
19 A loving deer, a graceful doe 5:19 Or graceful mountain goat —
let her breasts always satisfy you; 5:19 Sg 4:5
be lost in her love forever.
20 Why, my son, would you lose yourself
with a forbidden woman
or embrace a wayward woman? 5:20 Pr 2:16