Proverbs 5:18 {19}
Good News Translation
So be happy with your wife and find your joy with the woman you married--

New Revised Standard Version
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

Contemporary English Version
Be happy with the wife you married when you were young.

New American Bible
Let your fountain be blessed and have joy of the wife of your youth,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love.

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Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love.

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Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun.

Malachi 2:14,15 And you have said: For what cause? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast despised: yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant. . . .

Context
Avoiding Immorality
17Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth: 18Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love.19Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:5
When a man hath lately taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any public business be enjoined him, but he shall be free at home without fault, that for one year he may rejoice with his wife.

Proverbs 5:16
Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.

Proverbs 5:17
Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:

Proverbs 9:17
And he did not know that giants are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun.

Songs 4:12
My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.

Songs 4:15
The fountain of gardens: the well of living waters, which run with a strong stream from Libanus.

Malachi 2:14
And you have said: For what cause? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast despised: yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant.

Proverbs 5:17
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