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

⁹ Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

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

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

¹⁴ But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.

¹⁵ ... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.