New Century Version NCV
New International Version NIV
15 Be faithful to your own wife, just as you drink water from your own well.
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Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
16 Don't pour your water in the streets; don't give your love to just any woman.
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Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
17 These things are yours alone and shouldn't be shared with strangers.
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Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
18 Be happy with the wife you married when you were young. She gives you joy, as your fountain gives you water.
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May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 She is as lovely and graceful as a deer. Let her love always make you happy; let her love always hold you captive.
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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 My son, don't be held captive by a woman who takes part in adultery. Don't hug another man's wife.
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Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
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