Proverbs 5:17 {18}
Good News Translation
Your children should grow up to help you, not strangers.

New Revised Standard Version
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for sharing with strangers.

Contemporary English Version
Save yourself for your wife and don't have sex with other women.

New American Bible
Let them be yours alone, not shared with outsiders;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:

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Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:

Context
Avoiding Immorality
16Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee. 17Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:18Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love.…
Cross References
Proverbs 5:16
Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.

Proverbs 5:18
Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love.

Proverbs 5:16
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