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Let thy well-spring be blessed,—and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth:—
Proverbs 5:18 · Rotherham Emphasised 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 thou water out of thine own cistern, and flowing streams out of the midst of thine own well.
16 Let not thy fountains, flow over, abroad, in the streets, dividings of waters:
17 Let them be for thyself, alone, and not for strangers with thee.
18 Let thy well-spring be blessed,—and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth:—
19 A loving hind! a graceful doe! let, her bosom, content thee at all times, and, in her love, mayst thou stray evermore.
20 Wherefore, then, shouldst thou stray, my son, with a strange woman? or embrace the bosom of a woman unknown?
21 For, before the eyes of Yahweh, are the ways of a man,—and, all his tracks, doth he consider:
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