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OET (OET-RV) No OET-RV PRO 5:18 verse available
OET-LV May_it_be fountain_your blessed and_rejoice in_wife youth_your.
UHB יְהִֽי־מְקוֹרְךָ֥ בָר֑וּךְ וּ֝שְׂמַ֗ח מֵאֵ֥שֶׁת נְעוּרֶֽךָ׃ ‡
(yəhiy-məqōrəkā ⱱārūk ūsəmaḩ mēʼēshet nəˊūrekā.)
Key: yellow:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT May your fountain be blessed,
⇔ and be glad from the wife of your youth!
UST Be happy with your wife;
⇔ rejoice with the woman whom you married when you were young.
BSB May your fountain be blessed,
⇔ and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
OEB Let your fountain be your own,
⇔ take joy from the wife of your youth –
WEB Let your spring be blessed.
⇔ Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
NET May your fountain be blessed,
⇔ and may you rejoice in your young wife –
LSV Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice because of the wife of your youth,
FBV May your spring of water be blessed, and may you enjoy the wife you married when you were young.
T4T Let your wife be a source of great pleasure to you.
⇔ ◄Be happy/Enjoy sex► with the woman whom you married when you were both young.
LEB • and rejoice in the wife[fn] of your youth.
?:? Or “woman”
BBE Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
MOF No MOF PRO book available
JPS Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
ASV Let thy fountain be blessed;
⇔ And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
DRA Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
YLT Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,
DBY Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
RV Let thy fountain be blessed; and rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
WBS Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
KJB Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
(Let thy/your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy/your youth. )
BB Let thy well be blessed, and be glad with the wyfe of thy youth.
(Let thy/your well be blessed, and be glad with the wife of thy/your youth.)
GNV Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
(Let thy/your fountaine be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy/your youth. )
CB Let thy well be blessed, and be glad with the wife of thy youth.
(Let thy/your well be blessed, and be glad with the wife of thy/your youth.)
WYC Thi veyne be blessid; and be thou glad with the womman of thi yong wexynge age.
(Thi veyne be blessid; and be thou/you glad with the woman of thy/your yong wexynge age.)
LUT Dein Born sei gesegnet, und freue dich des Weibes deiner Jugend!
(Dein Born be gesegnet, and freue you/yourself the Weibes deiner Yugend!)
CLV Sit vena tua benedicta, et lætare cum muliere adolescentiæ tuæ.[fn]
(Sit vena your benedicta, and lætare when/with muliere adolescentiæ tuæ.)
5.18 Sit vena. Sit doctrina tua, et quæcunque nascuntur ex ea, in benedictione Ecclesiæ; et lætare cum ea, cui ab adolescentia, id est ex quo credidisti, conjunctus es.
5.18 Sit vena. Sit doctrina tua, and quæcunque nascuntur ex ea, in benedictione Ecclesiæ; and lætare when/with ea, cui away adolescentia, id it_is ex quo credidisti, conyunctus es.
BRN Let thy fountain of water be truly thine own; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
BrLXX Ἡ πηγή σου τοῦ ὕδατος ἔστω σοι ἰδία, καὶ συνευφραίνου μετὰ γυναικὸς τῆς ἐκ νεότητός σου.
(Haʸ paʸgaʸ sou tou hudatos estō soi idia, kai suneufrainou meta gunaikos taʸs ek neotaʸtos sou. )
5:1-23 These instructions on embracing one’s wife and avoiding immoral women were originally addressed to young men just beginning their professional careers (see also 2:16-22; 7:1-27). This topic is also popular in ancient Egyptian wisdom writing.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
יְהִֽי־מְקוֹרְךָ֥ בָר֑וּךְ
let_it_be fountain,your blessed
This clause is a command like the command to be glad in the next clause. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “Be blessed by your fountain”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
יְהִֽי־מְקוֹרְךָ֥ בָר֑וּךְ
let_it_be fountain,your blessed
Here Solomon speaks of his son’s wife as if she were a fountain by which his son should be blessed. Here the word blessed refers to experiencing joy or sexual pleasure. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “May you experience joy with your wife”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / possession
מֵאֵ֥שֶׁת נְעוּרֶֽךָ
in,wife youth,your
Here Solomon is using the possessive form to describe the wife whom his son married while he was in his youth. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “from the wife whom you married in your youth”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
נְעוּרֶֽךָ
youth,your
See how you translated the abstract noun youth in 2:17.