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Proverbs 5:18

NETBible	May your fountain be blessed,¹ and may you rejoice² in your young wife³ –
NIV © biblegateway Pro 5:18	May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
NASB © biblegateway Pro 5:18	Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth.
NLT © biblegateway Pro 5:18	Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
MSG © biblegateway Pro 5:18	Bless your fresh-flowing fountain! Enjoy the wife you married as a young man!
BBE © SABDAweb Pro 5:18	Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
NRSV © bibleoremus Pro 5:18	Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
NKJV © biblegateway Pro 5:18	Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth.
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KJV	Let thy fountain <04726> be blessed <01288> (8803)_: and rejoice <08055> (8798) with the wife <0802> of thy youth <05271>_.
NASB © biblegateway Pro 5:18	Let your fountain <04726> be blessed <01288> , And rejoice <08055> in the wife <0802> of your youth <05271> .
LXXM	h <3588> T-NSF phgh <4077> N-NSF sou <4771> P-GS tou <3588> T-GSN udatov <5204> N-GSN estw <1510> V-PAD-3S soi <4771> P-DS idia <2398> A-NSF kai <2532> CONJ suneufrainou {V-PMD-2S} meta <3326> PREP gunaikov <1135> N-GSF thv <3588> T-GSF ek <1537> PREP neothtov <3503> N-GSF sou <4771> P-GS
NET [draft] ITL	May your fountain <04726> be <01961> blessed <01288> , and may you rejoice <08055> in your young <05271> wife <0802> –
HEBREW	Krwen <05271> tsam <0802> xmvw <08055> Kwrb <01288> Krwqm <04726> yhy (5:18) <01961>

NETBible

May your fountain be blessed,¹ and may you rejoice² in your young wife³ –

NET Notes

¹sn The positive instruction is now given: Find pleasure in a fulfilling marriage. The “fountain” is another in the series of implied comparisons with the sexual pleasure that must be fulfilled at home. That it should be blessed (the passive participle of בָּרַךְ, barakh) indicates that sexual delight is God-given; having it blessed would mean that it would be endowed with fruitfulness, that it would fulfill all that God intended it to do.

²tn The form is a Qal imperative with a vav (ו) of sequence; after the jussive of the first half this colon could be given an equivalent translation or logically subordinated.

³tn Or “in the wife you married when you were young” (cf. NCV, CEV); Heb “in the wife of your youth” (so NIV, NLT). The genitive functions as an attributive adjective: “young wife” or “youthful wife.” Another possibility is that it refers to the age in which a man married his wife: “the wife you married in your youth.”