Parallel Verses

Amplified


Let your fountain (wife) be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity],
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

New American Standard Bible

Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

King James Version

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Holman Bible

Let your fountain be blessed,
and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.

International Standard Version

Let your fountain be blessed and enjoy the wife of your youth.

A Conservative Version

Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth:

American Standard Version

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

Bible in Basic English

Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

Darby Translation

Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.

Julia Smith Translation

Thy fountain shall be blessed: and rejoice from the wife of thy youth.

King James 2000

Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

Lexham Expanded Bible

May your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Modern King James verseion

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Let thy well be blessed; and be glad with the wife of thy youth.

NET Bible

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife --

New Heart English Bible

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

The Emphasized Bible

Let thy well-spring be blessed, - and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth: -

Webster

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

World English Bible

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Youngs Literal Translation

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מקר מקור 
Maqowr 
Usage: 18

be blessed
בּרך 
Barak 
Usage: 330

and rejoice
שׂמח 
Samach 
Usage: 155

with the wife
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Do Not Commit Adultery Against Wisdom

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.
19
Let her be as a loving hind and graceful doe,
Let her breasts refresh and satisfy you at all times;
Always be exhilarated and delight in her love.



Cross References

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given you under the sun—all the days of vanity and futility. For this is your reward in life and in your work in which you have labored under the sun.

Song of Songs 4:12


“A garden enclosed is my sister, my [promised] bride—
A rock garden locked, a spring sealed up.

Song of Songs 4:15


“You are a fountain in a garden,
A well of fresh and living water,
And streams flowing from Lebanon.”

Malachi 2:14-15

But you say, “Why [does He reject it]?” Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously. Yet she is your marriage companion and the wife of your covenant [made by your vows].

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