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Proverbs 5:18-20
New Catholic Bible
Proverbs 5:18-20
New Catholic Bible
18 May your fountain be blessed,
and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
19 a lovely deer, a graceful fawn—
let her affection fill you with delight
and ever hold you captive.[a]
20 Why then be seduced by another man’s wife, my son,
and succumb to the embraces of an adulteress?
Footnotes
- Proverbs 5:19 The author alludes to the joys of marital love (which in Song 4:10 is described as better than wine).