__gottahavefaith
Proverbs
Chapter 5
15
Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
16
Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
17
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
18
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
19
a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
20
Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
__gottahavefaith's Note
Jul 7
the father offers the antidote to promiscuity
as he urges his son to intoxicate himself with the sexual. satisfaction
that marriage has to offer (v. 15).6
Through the effective use of
metaphor and hyperbole he depicts the son's wife as a bountiful
and inexhaustible source of sexual pleasure (vv. 16-17) on whom
he even pronounces a blessing (vv. 18-19a). He then reiterates the
exhortation (v. 19b), which he buttresses with a rhetorical question
(v. 20) and some concluding observations about God's moral administration
of the world (vv. 21-23).