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Proverbs 5:15

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

Proverbs 5:15 · Berean Standard Bible

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Proverbs 5:15 in other translations

KJV King James Version

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

WEB World English Bible

Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

NHEB New Heart English Bible

Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

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In context

12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

14 I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

16 Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

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

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