Proverbs 5:16

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Proverbs 5:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

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?

17 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:

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Deuteronomy 33:28

So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.

Psalms 68:26

Bless God in the great congregation; bless the LORD from the fountain of Israel.

Isaiah 48:21

They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out.

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”

Judges 12:9

He had thirty sons, as well as thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage to men outside his clan; and for his sons he brought back thirty wives from elsewhere. Ibzan judged Israel seven years.

Psalms 127:3

Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

Psalms 128:3

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.