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Proverbs 5:15-20

15 Drink water from your own cistern, water flowing from your own well.

15 Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.

16 Should your springs flow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

17 They should be for you alone and not for you [to share] with strangers.

17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

18 Let your fountain be blessed, and take pleasure in the wife of your youth.

18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn- let her breasts always satisfy you; be lost in her love forever.

19 A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.

20 Why, my son, would you be infatuated with a forbidden woman or embrace the breast of a stranger?

20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?