Proverbs 5:16-18

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁶ Should your offspring be dispersed abroad as water brooks in the streets?

¹⁷ [Confine yourself to your own wife] let your children be for you alone, and not the children of strangers with you.

¹⁸ Let your fountain [of human life] be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity], and rejoice in the wife of your youth.