17 (A)Let them be for yourself alone,
    and not for strangers with you.
18 Let your (B)fountain be blessed,
    and (C)rejoice in (D)the wife of your youth,
19     a lovely (E)deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts (F)fill you at all times with delight;
    be intoxicated[a] always in her love.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:19 Hebrew be led astray; also verse 20

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