💡WEB · Proverbs 5:15

What does Proverbs 5:15 mean?

"Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well."

— Proverbs 5:15 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

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neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

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I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”

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Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

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Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

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Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

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Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

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