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Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs 5:18 · Darby Bible
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Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
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15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16 Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways.
17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
18 Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
19 As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.
20 And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he pondereth all his paths.
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