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Proverbs 5:15
New English Translation
Proverbs 5:15
New English Translation
15 Drink water from your own cistern
and running water from your own well.[a]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 5:15 sn Paul Kruger develops this section as an allegory consisting of a series of metaphors. He suggests that what is at issue is private versus common property. The images of the cistern, well, or fountain are used of a wife (e.g., Song 4:15) because she, like water, satisfies desires. Streams of water in the street would then mean sexual contact with a lewd woman. According to 7:12 she never stays home but is in the streets and is the property of many (P. Kruger, “Promiscuity and Marriage Fidelity? A Note on Prov 5:15-18, ” JNSL 13 [1987]: 61-68).
Proverbs 5:15
New International Version
Proverbs 5:15
New International Version
15 Drink water from your own cistern,
running water from your own well.
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