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16 
Should your [a]springs (children) be dispersed,
As streams of water in the streets?
17 
[Confine yourself to your own wife.] Let your children be yours alone,
And not the children of strangers with you.
18 
Let your fountain (wife) be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity],
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:16 I.e. children of one’s promiscuity who are fatherless.

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