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Proverbs 5:17

Marriage Faithfulness and loyalty

¹⁵ 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?

Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

¹⁸ May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

¹⁹ A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
KJV: Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
WEB: Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
ASV: Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.
DARBY: Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
BLB: Let them be for you, yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.

ÅB: La dem være for deg alene og ikke for fremmede sammen med deg!
OTB: La dem være dine alene, ikke deles med fremmede.
B1930: La dem være for dig alene og ikke for fremmede sammen med dig!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study