Proverbs 5:16
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Proverbs 5:16 in other translations
| BSB | Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? |
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| WEB | Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares? |
| ASV | Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets? |
| YLT | Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters. |
| DARBY | Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways. |
| BBE | Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places. |
| Webster | Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. |
What does Proverbs 5:16 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 5:15-20
15-20. By figures, in which well, cistern, and fountain [Pr 5:15, 18] represent the wife, and rivers of waters [Pr 5:16] the children, men are exhorted to constancy and satisfaction in lawful conjugal enjoyments. In Pr 5:16, fountains (in the plural) rather denote the produce or waters of a spring, literally, "what is from a spring," and corresponds with "rivers of waters."
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 5:15-23
Lawful marriage is a means God has appointed to keep from these destructive vices. But we are not properly united, except as we attend to God's word, seeking his direction and blessing, and acting with affection. Ever remember, that though secret sins may escape the eyes of our fellow-creatures, yet a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, who not only sees, but ponders all his goings. Those who are so foolish…
Proverbs 5:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 5:16
- Psalms 128:3
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
- Psalms 127:3
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
- Deuteronomy 33:28
Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
- Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
- Isaiah 48:21
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
- Judges 12:9
And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
- Psalms 68:26
Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
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Context
- Proverbs 5:15
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
- Proverbs 5:16
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
- Proverbs 5:17
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
Proverbs 5:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Derrámense por de fuera tus fuentes, en las plazas los ríos de aguas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tes fontaines se répandront au-dehors, des ruisseaux d’eau dans les places. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Mögen nach außen sich ergießen deine Quellen, deine Wasserbäche auf die Straßen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | deriventur fontes tui foras, et in plateis aquas tuas divide. |