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Proverbs 5:15–17

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15Drink owater from your own cistern,

flowing water from your own well.

16Should your psprings be scattered abroad,

streams of water qin the streets?

17rLet them be for yourself alone,

and not for strangers with you.

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Cross references

  1. over. 18; [ch. 9:17; Song 4:12, 15; Jer. 2:13]
  2. pSee Ps. 68:26
  3. q[Jer. 9:21; Zech. 8:5]
  4. r[ch. 14:10]

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Drink water from your own cistern,

running water from your own well.

Should your springs overflow in the streets,

your streams of water in the public squares?

Let them be yours alone,

never to be shared with strangers.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Drink water from your own cistern,

water flowing from your own well.

Should your springs flow in the streets,

streams in the public squares?

They should be for you alone

and not for you to share with strangers.

NLTNew Living Translation

Drink water from your own well—

share your love only with your wife.

Why spill the water of your springs in the streets,

having sex with just anyone?

You should reserve it for yourselves.

Never share it with strangers.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Drink water from your own cistern

and flowing waters from inside your own well.

Shall your springs be scattered outward?

In the streets, shall there be streams of water?

May they be yours alone,

and not for strangers who are with you.

KJV 1900King James Version

Drink waters out of thine own cistern,

And running waters out of thine own well.

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad,

And rivers of waters in the streets.

Let them be only thine own,

And not strangers’ with thee.