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Proverbs 5:18–20

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18May your fountainw be blessed,

and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.x

19A loving doe, a graceful deery—

may her breasts satisfy you always,

may you ever be intoxicated with her love.

20Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?

Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

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Cross references

  1. wSS 4:12–15
  2. xSee Dt 20:7; Pr 2:17; Ecc 9:9; Mal 2:14
  3. ySS 4:5; 8:14

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

Let your fountain be blessed,

and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

a lovely deer, a graceful doe.

Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;

be intoxicated always in her love.

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman

and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Let your fountain be blessed,

and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.

A loving deer, a graceful doe—

let her breasts always satisfy you;

be lost in her love forever.

Why, my son, would you lose yourself

with a forbidden woman

or embrace a wayward woman?

NLTNew Living Translation

Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you.

Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

She is a loving deer, a graceful doe.

Let her breasts satisfy you always.

May you always be captivated by her love.

Why be captivated, my son, by an immoral woman,

or fondle the breasts of a promiscuous woman?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

May your fountain be blessed,

and rejoice in the wife of your youth.

She is a deer of love and a doe of grace;

may her breasts satisfy you always;

by her love may you be intoxicated continually.

Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman,

and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

KJV 1900King James Version

Let thy fountain be blessed:

And rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe;

Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times;

And be thou ravished always with her love.

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,

And embrace the bosom of a stranger?