Ecclesiastes 9:9; Malachi 2:14; Malachi 2:15
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 tha...
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 ....
thy fountain: i.e. thine own wife. Compare Proverbs 5:16 . rejoice with . get thy joy with. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate,...
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...
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...
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...
Unholy Passion. Hallowed Love A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequen...
It is blessed when enjoyed legitimately.
(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 pictu...
Let thy fountain ... — As a reward for purity of life, the blessing of a numerous offspring is invoked. (Comp. Psalms 128:3 , where the wife is 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 fo...
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....
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 s...
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 manne...
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, th...
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 co...
Conjugal Fidelity Enjoined. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern,...
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 r...
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 n...
ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19 Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures...
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...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 5:1-20 8. Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. The teacher, in this d...
Chastity Contrasted with Unchastity
Let thy fountain be blessed, the children of lawful wedlock being gifts of the Lord, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Cf Deuteronomy 24:5 ;...
Fountain — Thy wife. Blessed — With children; for barrenness was esteemed a curse among the Israelites.
18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.