Proverbs 5:17
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
Let them be onely thine owne, and not strangers with thee.
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Proverbs 5:17
Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.
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5:15¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
5:15¶ Drinke waters out of thine owne cisterne, and running waters out of thine owne well.
5:16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
5:16Let thy fountaines bee dispersed abroad, and riuers of waters in the streets.
5:17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
5:17Let them be onely thine owne, and not strangers with thee.
Selected passage5:18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
5:18Let thy fountaine be blessed: and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
5:19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
5:19††Let her bee as the louing Hinde and pleasant Roe, let her breasts satisfie thee at all times, and be thou rauisht alwayes with her loue.
5:20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
5:20And why wilt thou, my sonne, be rauisht with a strange woman, and imbrace the bosome of a stranger?
5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
5:21*For the wayes of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.