Proverbs 5:16 meaning and explanation
Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
Proverbs 5:16, Berean Standard Bible
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In this verse a father continues his instruction to his son, warning against the forbidden woman and urging faithfulness to one's own wife. The previous verse pictures marital intimacy as water from one's own cistern and well, and this verse asks why those springs should flow into the streets and public squares.
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