Proverbs 5:18

Fountain — Thy wife. Blessed — With children; for barrenness was esteemed a curse among the Israelites.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 5:18

Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 ....
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

thy fountain: i.e. thine own wife. Compare Proverbs 5:16 . rejoice with . get thy joy with. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate,...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Unholy Passion. Hallowed Love A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequen...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

It is blessed when enjoyed legitimately.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 “...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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....
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Conjugal Fidelity Enjoined. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern,...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19 Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 5:1-20 8. Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. The teacher, in this d...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Chastity Contrasted with Unchastity
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 ;...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 9:9 ; Malachi 2:14 ; Malachi 2:15

¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 5:18

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 5:18