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Proverbs 5:18-20

Marriage is God’s gift. A husband and wife should give themselves to each other. They should enjoy their marriage. They should love each other. They attract each other, and this is good.

v21 God sees everything that you do.

He watches all your actions.

v22 Evil actions are like a trap for an evil man.

His own evil deeds are like an enemy who ties up the evil man.

v23 An evil man will die, because he has no discipline.

He wanders because he is a fool.

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See also Proverbs 5:18-20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 5:18. _LET THY FOUNTAIN BE BLESSED_] יהי מקורך ברוך _yehi_ _mekorecha baruch_. _Sit vena tua benedicta_. Thy _vein_; that which carries off streams from the fountain of _animal life_,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Shun the strange woman and sinful passion (Proverbs 5:1)_ 2. The life of chastity (Proverbs 5:15) Proverbs 5:1. It is a warning against literal fornication and the accompanying spirit...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS 5:1; PROVERBS 5:10; PROVERBS 5:20. Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THY FOUNTAIN: i.e. thine own wife. Compare Proverbs 5:16. REJOICE WITH. get thy joy with. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "in" instead of "with"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The remedy against sin is to be found in the holy estate which God has ordained. "The resemblance between the two Books (the Song of Solomon and the Book of Proverbs) in their treatment of this subjec...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LET THY FOUNTAIN BE BLESSED— _That your wife may be fruitful, and God may bless you with a numerous posterity._ The next clause very clearly points out the meaning of the metaphor....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 5:15-23 15. Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. 16. Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets? 17....

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. LET THY FOUNTAIN BE BLESSED: AND REJOICE WITH THE WIFE OF THY YOUTH. The first clause refers to , the second to . "Thy fountain...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:18 fountain (l-3) Ver. 16 as ch. 8.24; ver. 18 as ch. 10.11....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    It is blessed when enjoyed legitimately....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    UNHOLY PASSION. HALLOWED LOVE A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequences of adultery; loss of honour, property, life, oppo...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (15-20) DRINK WATERS OUT OF THINE OWN CISTERN... — In these verses Solomon urges his disciples to follow after purity in the married life; he pictures in vivid terms the delights which it affords as c...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LET THY FOUNTAIN... — As a reward for purity of life, the blessing of a numerous offspring is invoked. (Comp. Psalms 128:3, where the wife is a “fruitful vine,” and the children numerous and flourishi...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יְהִֽי ־מְקֹורְךָ֥ בָר֑וּךְ וּ֝ שְׂמַ֗ח מֵ אֵ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 6 THE WAYS AND ISSUES OF SIN "His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his fo...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is a parental exhortation against impurity. It is expressed in words of great delicacy and beauty, but it is none the less urgent and searching. It recognizes one of the most subtle and natural t...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Let thy (k) fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy (l) youth. (k) Your children who will come from you in great abundance showing that God blesses marriage and curses whoredom. (l) Wh...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Vein. Thou shalt have a numerous progeny, Psalm lxvii. 28., and Isaias xlviii. 1. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strange...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LET THY FOUNTAIN BE BLESSED,.... Thy wife; make her happy by keeping to her and from others; by behaving in a loving, affable, and respectful manner to her; by living comfortably with her, and providi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Ver. 18. _Let thy fountain be blessed._] Or, Thy fountain shall be blessed, thy wife shall be fruitful, as Psalms 128:3, that psal...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Let thy fountain be blessed_ Thy wife, as the next clause explains it, _shall be blessed_ with children; or rather, she shall be a blessing and a comfort to thee, as it follows, and not a curse and s...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Let thy fountain be blessed, the children of lawful wedlock being gifts of the Lord, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Cf Deuteronomy 24:5; Ecclesiastes 9:9....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CHASTITY CONTRASTED WITH UNCHASTITY...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 act...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THY FOUNTAIN; thy wife, as the next clause explains it. BE BLESSED; she shall be blessed with children; for barrenness was esteemed a curse and reproach, especially among the Israelites. Or rather, sh...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 5:18 fountain H4726 blessed H1288 (H8803) rejoice H8055 (H8798) wife H802 youth H5271 rejoice -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SOLOMON CALLS ON HIS SON TO BE FAITHFUL TO HIS TRUE WIFE, AND TO OBTAIN HIS SEXUAL ENJOYMENTS FROM HER (PROVERBS 5:15). In contrast Solomon now brings home to ‘his son' (Proverbs 5:20) the joys of sex...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Caution against the sin of whoredom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: We ought industriously to avoid everything that might be an occasion of the sin of adultery or a step to...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 5:3. _The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb._ She employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woman....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 5:15 The wife is pictured as a source of water (WELL, FOUNTAIN, etc.). The man who is tempted to commit adultery should think about how he would feel if his wife were to do t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 5:18 The intimacy of marriage provides the place where sexual desires are rightly expressed for the enjoyment (REJOICE) and good (BE BLESSED) of both husband and wife....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19_ Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures those gazelles are, and how gracefully they bound. We...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 5:1 8. _Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. _The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a subject which he has glanced at before in...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now my son, attend unto my wisdom, bow your ear to my understanding: That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge (Proverbs 5:1; Proverbs 5:2). And now he's going to warn his...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ecclesiastes 9:9; Malachi 2:14; Malachi 2:15...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Fountain — Thy wife. Blessed — With children; for barrenness was esteemed a curse among the Israelites....

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