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18 Let your fountain be blessed,
    and rejoice in the wife of your youth,(A)

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Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life that are given you under the sun,[a] because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.(A)

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  1. 9.9 Cn: Heb sun, all the days of your vanity

14 You ask, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.(A) 15 Did God[a] not make them one, flesh with spirit in it? And what does the one desire? Godly offspring. So look to yourselves, and do not let anyone be faithless to the wife of his youth.[b](B)

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  1. 2.15 Heb he
  2. 2.15 Meaning of Heb uncertain