Proverbs 5:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 68:26 : 26 Give praise to God in the great meeting; even the Lord, you who come from the fountain of Israel.
  • Ps 127:3 : 3 See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.
  • Ps 128:3 : 3 Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.
  • Isa 48:21 : 21 They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.
  • Gen 24:60 : 60 And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.
  • Deut 33:28 : 28 And Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob by himself, in a land of grain and wine, with dew dropping from the heavens.
  • Judg 12:9 : 9 He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he sent to other places, and he got thirty wives from other places for his sons. And he was judge of Israel for seven years.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 15 Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

  • 15 You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

  • Prov 5:17-18
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    17 Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

    18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

  • 4 The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters: the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.

  • Ps 78:15-16
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    15 The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

    16 He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

  • 24 But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

  • 10 You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills.

  • 18 I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

  • 7 As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.

  • 11 Does the fountain send from the same outlet sweet and bitter water?

  • 7 For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;

  • 18 Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.

  • 33 He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;

  • 14 But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.

  • 4 He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

  • 26 Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.

  • 35 He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.

  • 25 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

  • 13 For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

  • 15 You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

  • 24 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

  • 6 Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.

  • 3 So with joy will you get water out of the springs of salvation.

  • 4 So they got together a great number of people, and had all the water-springs and the stream flowing through the land stopped up, saying, Why let the kings of Assyria come and have much water?

  • 41 His hand made the rock open, and the waters came streaming out; they went down through the dry places like a river.

  • 6 He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.

  • 5 And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:

  • 38 He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.

  • 12 A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.

  • 8 Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.

  • 1 Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.

  • 11 And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.

  • 8 And he said to me, These waters are flowing out to the east part of the land and down into the Arabah; and they will go to the sea, and the waters will be made sweet.

  • 10 Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

  • 7 All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.

  • 10 You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

  • 11 He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.

  • 15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • 13 He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

  • 136 Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.

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    8 The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.

    9 For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light.

  • 21 They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

  • 20 Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.

  • 10 So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.

  • 6 Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.

  • 25 And there will be rivers and streams of water on every tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down.

  • 6 They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.