5:18 Let thy {k} fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy {l} youth.
(k) Your children who will come from you in great abundance showing that God blesses marriage and curses whoredom.
(l) Who you married in your youth.
5:18 Fountain - Thy wife. Blessed - With children; for barrenness was esteemed a curse among the Israelites.
5:15-23 Lawful marriage is a means God has appointed to keep from these destructive vices. But we are not properly united, except as we attend to God's word, seeking his direction and blessing, and acting with affection. Ever remember, that though secret sins may escape the eyes of our fellow-creatures, yet a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, who not only sees, but ponders all his goings. Those who are so foolish as to choose the way of sin, are justly left of God to themselves, to go on in the way to destruction.
