New Revised Standard NRS
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16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
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Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for sharing with strangers.
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Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
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May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you be intoxicated always by her love.
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A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
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Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
21 For human ways are under the eyes of the Lord, and he examines all their paths.
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For your ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all your paths.
22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the toils of their sin.
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The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast.
23 They die for lack of discipline, and because of their great folly they are lost.
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For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly.
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