18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. …
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-23)Solomon, having shown the great evil that there is in adultery and fornication, and all such lewd and filthy courses, here prescribes remedies against them. I. Enjoy with satisfaction the comforts of lawful marriage, which was ordained for the prevention of uncleanness, and therefore ought to be made use of in time, lest it should not prove effectual for the cure of that which it might have preven…
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