Proverbs 5:15 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 5. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 5:15

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 5:15-23: Solomon, having shown the great evil that there is in adultery and fornication, and all such lewd and filthy courses, here prescribes remedies against them. I. Enjoy with satisfaction the comforts of lawful marriage, which was ordained for the prevention of uncleanness, and therefore ought to be made use of in time, lest it should not prove effectual for the cure of that which it might have prevented.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 5:15: Drink waters out of thine own cistern,.... Arguments being used to dissuade from conversation with an adulterous woman, taken from the disgrace, diseases, poverty, and distress of mind on reflection, it brings a man to; the wise man proceeds to direct to marriage, as a proper antidote against it: take a wife and cleave to her, and enjoy all the pleasures and comforts of a marriage state.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 5:15: By figures, in which well, cistern, and fountain [Pro 5:15, Pro 5:18] represent the wife, and rivers of waters [Pro 5:16] the children, men are exhorted to constancy and satisfaction in lawful conjugal enjoyments. In Pro 5:16, fountains (in the plural) rather denote the produce or waters of a spring, literally, "what is from a spring," and corresponds with "rivers of waters."
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 5:15: Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. (h) He teaches us sobriety exhorting us to live of our own labours and to be beneficial to the godly who want.