KJV King James Version
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets.
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Proverbs 5:16
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
WEB World English Bible
Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?
ASV American Standard Version
Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 5
13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets.
17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19 [Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
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Psalm 128:3Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.Psalm 127:3Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward.Psalm 68:26Bless ye God in the congregations, [even] the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.Judges 12:9And 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.Deuteronomy 33:28Israel 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.Isaiah 48:21And 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.Genesis 24:60And 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.
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