Proverbs 5:18 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 5. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 5:18

• 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 5:18: Let thy fountain be blessed,.... Thy wife; make her happy by keeping to her and from others; by behaving in a loving, affable, and respectful manner to her; by living comfortably with her, and providing well for her and her children: or reckon her a happiness, a blessing that God has bestowed; or "thy fountain shall be blessed,'' as the Targum; that is, with a...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 5:18: Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. (k) Your children who will come from you in great abundance showing that God blesses marriage and curses whoredom. (l) Who you married in your youth.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 5:18-20: Pro 5:18-20 With Pro 5:18 is introduced anew the praise of conjugal love. These three verses, Pro 5:18-21, have the same course of thought as Pro 5:15-17. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. 19 The lovely hind and the graceful gazelle - May her bosom always charm thee; In her love mayest thou delight thyself evermore.