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Proverbs 5:15-17
New Catholic Bible
Proverbs 5:15-17
New Catholic Bible
Rejoice in the Wife of Your Youth[a]
15 Drink the water from your own cistern,
fresh water from your own well.[b]
16 Do not allow your springs[c] to overflow,
gushing forth water into the streets.
17 Let them be for you alone
and not be shared by strangers.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 5:15 True fidelity knows how to rediscover the happiness of first love. Proverbs has a beautiful idea of marriage.
- Proverbs 5:15 Your own cistern . . . your own well: a reference to the wife. Wells and cisterns were privately owned and had great value (see 2 Ki 18:31; Jer 38:6).
- Proverbs 5:16 Springs: these also refer to the wife as does “fountain” in verse 18 (see Song 4:12, 15).
