Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let thy well be blessed; and be glad with the wife of thy youth.
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.
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 but let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 18 Let thy well be blessed; and be glad with the wife of thy youth. 19 Let her be as the loving hind, and pleasant roe: let her breasts alway satisfy thee, and hold thee ever content with her love.
Phrases
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Use thy self to live joyfully with thy wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy life which is but vanity, that God hath given thee under the Sun; all the days of thy vanity. For that is thy portion in this life, of all thy labor and travail that thou takest under the Sun.
Song of Songs 4:12
Thou art a well kept garden, O my sister, my spouse, thou are a well kept watering spring, and a sealed well.
Song of Songs 4:15
Thou art a well of gardens, a well of living waters, which run down from Lebanon.
Malachi 2:14-15
And yet ye say, 'Wherefore?' Even because that whereas the LORD made a covenant betwixt thee and the wife of thy youth, thou hast despised her: Yet is she thine own companion and married wife.