Proverbs 5:16
New International Version
Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

New Living Translation
Why spill the water of your springs in the streets, having sex with just anyone?

English Standard Version
Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?

Berean Standard Bible
Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

King James Bible
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

New King James Version
Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets?

New American Standard Bible
Should your springs overflow into the street, Streams of water in the public squares?

NASB 1995
Should your springs be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets?

NASB 1977
Should your springs be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets?

Legacy Standard Bible
Should your springs be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets?

Amplified Bible
Should your springs (children) be dispersed, As streams of water in the streets?

Christian Standard Bible
Should your springs flow in the streets, streams in the public squares?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Should your springs flow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

American Standard Version
Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And let your waters overflow in your streets and let them travel in your streets.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Let not waters out of thy fountain be spilt by thee, but let thy waters go into thy streets.

Contemporary English Version
And don't be like a stream from which just any woman may take a drink.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.

English Revised Version
Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, and rivers of water in the streets?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Why should water flow out of your spring? Why should your streams flow into the streets?

Good News Translation
Children that you have by other women will do you no good.

International Standard Version
Should your springs flow outside, or streams of water in the street?

JPS Tanakh 1917
Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, And courses of water in the streets.

Literal Standard Version
Let your fountains be scattered abroad, | In broad places streams of waters.

Majority Standard Bible
Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

New American Bible
Should your water sources be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets?

NET Bible
Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

New Revised Standard Version
Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?

New Heart English Bible
Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

Webster's Bible Translation
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

World English Bible
Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

Young's Literal Translation
Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Avoiding Immorality
15Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. 16Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? 17Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.…

Cross References
Proverbs 5:15
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

Proverbs 5:17
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

Proverbs 5:18
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

Proverbs 9:17
"Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!"

Song of Solomon 4:12
My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.

Song of Solomon 4:15
You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.


Treasury of Scripture

Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

thy

Deuteronomy 33:28
Israel 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.

Psalm 68:26
Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.

Isaiah 48:21
And 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.

dispersed

Genesis 24:60
And 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.

Judges 12:9
And 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.

Psalm 127:3
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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1. Solomon exhorts to wisdom
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15. He exhorts to contentedness, generosity, and chastity
22. The wicked are overtaken with their own sins














Verse 16. - Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. The figurative language is still continued, and under the terms "fountains" and "rivers of waters," are to be understood children, the legitimate issue of lawful marriage. So Aben Ezra and the majority of modern commentators, Schultens, Doderlein, Holden, Muenscher, Noyes, Wardlaw, etc. The meaning appears to be, "Let thy marriage be blessed with many children, who may go forth abroad for the public good." Other interpretations have been adopted. Thus:

(1) Delitzsch takes the words fountans and "rivers of waters" as used figuratively for the procreative power, and renders, "Shall thy streams flow abroad, and water brooks in the streets?" and interprets, "Let generative power act freely and unrestrainedly within the marriage relation."

(2) Schultens and Dathe, followed by Holden, regard the verse as expressing a conclusion on the preceding, "Then shall thy springs be dispersed abroad, even rivers of waters in the streets." The objection to this is that it necessitates the insertion of the copulative vau (ו) before the verb, yaphutzu, "be dispersed."

(3) Zockler and Hitzig read the verse interrogatively, "Shall thy streams flow abroad as water brooks in the streets?" on the analogy of Proverbs 6:30 and Psalm 56:7. . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Why should your springs
מַעְיְנֹתֶ֣יךָ (ma‘·yə·nō·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4599: A fountain, a source

flow
יָפ֣וּצוּ (yā·p̄ū·ṣū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 6327: To be dispersed or scattered

in the streets,
ח֑וּצָה (ḥū·ṣāh)
Noun - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 2351: Separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors

your streams
פַּלְגֵי־ (pal·ḡê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 6388: A channel, canal

of water
מָֽיִם׃ (mā·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

in the public squares?
בָּ֝רְחֹב֗וֹת (bā·rə·ḥō·ḇō·wṯ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7339: A broad open place, plaza


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