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Proverbs 5:15

Context

5:15 Drink water from your own cistern

and running water from your own well. 1 

Proverbs 9:5

Context

9:5 “Come, eat 2  some of my food,

and drink some of the wine I have mixed. 3 

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[5:15]  1 sn Paul Kruger develops this section as an allegory consisting of a series of metaphors. He suggests that what is at issue is private versus common property. The images of the cistern, well, or fountain are used of a wife (e.g., Song 4:15) because she, like water, satisfies desires. Streams of water in the street would then mean sexual contact with a lewd woman. According to 7:12 she never stays home but is in the streets and is the property of many (P. Kruger, “Promiscuity and Marriage Fidelity? A Note on Prov 5:15-18,” JNSL 13 [1987]: 61-68).

[9:5]  2 tn The construction features a cognate accusative (verb and noun from same root). The preposition בּ (bet) has the partitive use “some” (GKC 380 §119.m).

[9:5]  3 tn The final verb actually stands in a relative clause although the relative pronoun is not present; it modifies “wine.”



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