Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Holman Bible
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.
Amplified
Let your fountain (wife) be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity],
And rejoice in the wife of your 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,
Themes
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of a good wife
Harlot (prostitute) » To be shunned
Home » Husbands and wives » Duties of husbands
Marriage » The duties of a husband
Social duties » Fidelity in business » Husbands' duties
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 5:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Do Not Commit Adultery Against Wisdom
17
Let them be only thine own and not for strangers with thee.
18
And
Phrases
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou dost love all the days which thou art to live in this lake of vanity, which are given unto thee; all the days of thy vanity under the sun: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour in which thou dost work under the sun.
Song of Songs 4:12
A closed garden is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Song of Songs 4:15
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, that flow from Lebanon.
Malachi 2:14-15
Yet ye say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously; yet she is thy companion and the wife of thy covenant.