“ Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. ”
Let thy (k) fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy (l) youth. (k) Your children who will come from you in great abundance showing that God blesses marriage and curses whoredom. (l) W...
Proverbs 5:1-9 ; Proverbs 5:10-19 ; Proverbs 5:20-23 . Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and Proverbs 5:3 . The subject is the praise of Wisdom, and the desc...
thy fountain: i.e. thine own wife. Compare Proverbs 5:16 . rejoice with . get thy joy with. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "in" instead of "with".
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let thy fountain be blessed - יהי מקורך ברוך yehi mekorecha baruch. Sit vena tua benedicta. Thy vein; that which carries off strea...
Let thy fountain be blessed— That your wife may be fruitful, and God may bless you with a numerous posterity. The next clause very clearly points out the meaning of the metaphor.
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. The first clause refers to Proverbs 5:16 , the secon...
Unholy Passion. Hallowed Love A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequences of adultery; loss of honour, property, life, o...
(15-20) Drink waters out of thine own cistern ... — In these verses Solomon urges his disciples to follow after purity in the married life; he pictures in vivid terms the delights which it affords a...
CHAPTER 6 THE WAYS AND ISSUES OF SIN "His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his...
This is a parental exhortation against impurity. It is expressed in words of great delicacy and beauty, but it is none the less urgent and searching. It recognizes one of the most subtle and natural...
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strang...
Let thy fountain be blessed ,.... Thy wife; make her happy by keeping to her and from others; by behaving in a loving, affable, and respectful manner to her; by living comfortably with her, and prov...
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Ver. 18. Let thy fountain be blessed. ] Or, Thy fountain shall be blessed, thy wife shall be fruitful, as Psalms 128:3 , that...
Let thy fountain be blessed Thy wife, as the next clause explains it, shall be blessed with children; or rather, she shall be a blessing and a comfort to thee, as it follows, and not a curse and...
Conjugal Fidelity Enjoined. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Le...
Thy fountain; thy wife, as the next clause explains it. Be blessed; she shall be blessed with children; for barrenness was esteemed a curse and reproach, especially among the Israelites. Or rathe...
Solomon Calls On His Son To Be Faithful To His True Wife, And To Obtain His Sexual Enjoyments From Her ( Proverbs 5:15-20 ). In contrast Solomon now brings home to ‘his son' ( Proverbs 5:20 ) the...
ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19 Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures those gazelles are, and how gracefully they bound....
Proverbs 5:3 . The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb. She employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woma...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 5:1-20 8. Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a subject which he has glanced...
Chastity Contrasted with Unchastity
Ecclesiastes 9:9 ; Malachi 2:14 ; Malachi 2:15
Fountain — Thy wife. Blessed — With children; for barrenness was esteemed a curse among the Israelites.