Bible verse
Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
Proverbs 5:16 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 5.
12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
14 I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”
15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
16 Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
20 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
KJV
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets.
ASV
Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?
ERV
Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, and rivers of water in the streets?
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