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18 May your fountain, your sex life, be blessed by God;
    may you know true joy with the wife of your youth.
19 She who is lovely as a deer and graceful as a doe—
    as you drink in her love,
    may her breasts satisfy you at all times.
20 My son, why get caught up in some other woman
    and embrace the breast of a stranger?

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18 May your fountain(A) be blessed,
    and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.(B)
19 A loving doe, a graceful deer(C)
    may her breasts satisfy you always,
    may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
    Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

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