Proverbs 5:15
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
14 I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
16 Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
- KJV
- Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
- WEB
- Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
- ASV
- Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.
- DARBY
- Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
- BLB
- Drink water from your own cistern and flowing from the midst of your own well.
- ÅB
- Drikk av din egen brønn, drikk rinnende vann av din egen kilde!
- OTB
- Drikk bare vann fra dine egne oppbevaringskrukker, og trekk bare ditt friske vann fra dine egne brønner.
- B1930
- Drikk av din egen brønn, drikk rinnende vann av din egen kilde!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 7:2–5
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
Read in contextHebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Read in contextProverbs 5:18–19
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
Read in context