Verse List for PROV 5:16

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B I ◄ ← Prov 5:16 ↓ → ► ═ ©

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OET (OET-RV) Should your springs overflow out onto the streets, ⇔ ≈ with streams of water in the plaza?

OET-LV Will _they _overflow springs _of_your outside_to_the in_places streams _of water.

ULT Should your springs overflow outside, ⇔ channels of water in the open areas?

UST Do not be like someone who lets his water run out into the streets; ⇔  never have sex with other women!

BSB & MSB Why should your springs flow in the streets, ⇔  your streams of water in the public squares?

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB Should your springs overflow in the streets, ⇔  streams of water in the public squares?

NET Should your springs be dispersed outside, ⇔ your streams of water in the wide plazas?

LSV Let your fountains be scattered abroad,
In broad places streams of waters.

FBV Why should your springs be spilled outside, your streams of water poured out in the streets?

T4T Like you would not waste good water by pouring it into the street, ⇔  you should not have sex with other women. [MET, EUP]

LEB • Shall your springs be scattered outward?
• In the streets, shall there be streams of water?

BBE Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

Moff Are you to seek your pleasures here and there, ⇔  and drink them in the streets?

JPS Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets.

ASV Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, ⇔ And streams of water in the streets?

DRA Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.

YLT Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.

Drby Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways.

RV Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, and rivers of water in the streets?
(Should thy/your springs be dispersed abroad, and rivers of water in the streets?)

SLT Thy fountains shall be dispersed without; in the broad places streams of waters.

Wbstr Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

KJB-1769 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
(Let thy/your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.)

KJB-1611 Let thy fountaines bee dispersed abroad, and riuers of waters in the streets.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps Let thy welles flowe out abrode, that there may be riuers of waters in the streates:
(Let thy/your wells flow out abroad, that there may be rivers of waters in the streets:)

Gnva Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.
(Let thy/your fountains flow forth, and the rivers of waters in the streets.)

Cvdl Let yi welles flowe out a brode, that there maye be ryuers of water in the stretes.
(Let ye/you_all wells flow out a brode, that there may be rivers of water in the streets.)

Wycl Thi wellis be stremed forth; and departe thi watris in stretis.
(Thy/Your wells be stremed forth; and depart thy/your waters in streets.)

Luth Laß deine Brunnen herausfließen und die Wasserbäche auf die Gassen.
(Let your spring(n) out_of_herefließen and the streams on/in/to the alleys/lanes.)

ClVg deriventur fontes tui foras, et in plateis aquas tuas divide.[fn]
(deriventur sources/springs yours(sg) outside, and in/into/on the_streets waters yours divide.)

UHB יָפ֣וּצוּ מַעְיְנֹתֶ֣י⁠ךָ ח֑וּצָ⁠ה בָּ֝⁠רְחֹב֗וֹת פַּלְגֵי־מָֽיִם׃ ‡

BrLXX Μὴ ὑπερεκχείσθω σοι ὕδατα ἐκ τῆς σῆς πηγῆς, εἰς δὲ σὰς πλατείας διαπορευέσθω τὰ σὰ ὕδατα.

BrTr Let not waters out of thy fountain be spilt by thee, but let thy waters go into thy streets.