Proverbs 5:15–17
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Never Take Love for Granted
15–16Do you know the saying, “Drink from your own rain barrel,
draw water from your own spring-fed well”?
It’s true. Otherwise, you may one day come home
and find your barrel empty and your well polluted.
17–20Your spring water is for you and you only,
not to be passed around among strangers.
Copyright 2005 Eugene H. Peterson.
In other versions
ESVEnglish Standard Version
Drink water from your own cistern,
flowing water from your own well.
Should your springs be scattered abroad,
streams of water in the streets?
Let them be for yourself alone,
and not for strangers with you.
Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles
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.
Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.
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.
Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers
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.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.
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.
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press
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.
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