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 second to Proverbs 5:17. "Thy fountain" is the womb of thy wife (Leviticus 20:18). Be so faithful to thy wife that God shall bless thee with a numerous offspring (Psalms 128:3-4, "Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, etc. Behold thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord." "Rejoice with," or "in the wife of thy youth," stands in beautiful, contrast to Proverbs 5:11, "And thou mourn at the last." Thou shalt have cause, when old and toward the end of life, to rejoice on account of thy long union with the wife whom thou didst wed in youth, the season of ardent love, and by whom thou hast a numerous offspring (contrast Proverbs 2:17, where cf. note, Malachi 2:14).