PRO 5:18 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki: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).

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. )

BrTr Let thy fountain of water be truly thine own; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

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 –

WEBBE Let your spring be blessed.
⇔ Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

WMBB (Same as above)

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.

5:? Or “woman”

BBE Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

Moff No Moff 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,

Drby 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.

Wbstr Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

KJB-1769 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. )

KJB-1611 Let thy fountaine be blessed: and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps 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.)

Gnva Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
(Let thy/your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy/your youth. )

Cvdl 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.)

Wycl 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 young wexynge age.)

Luth Dein Born sei gesegnet, und freue dich des Weibes deiner Jugend!
(Dein Born be gesegnet, and freue you/yourself the Weibes deiner Yugend!)

ClVg 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 from ea, in benedictione Ecclesiæ; and lætare when/with ea, cui away adolescentia, id it_is from quo credidisti, conyunctus es.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

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.

Parallel PRO 5:18