Proverbs 5:16
16 Should your springs be dispersed ▼
▼tn The verb means “to be scattered; to be dispersed”; here the imperfect takes a deliberative nuance in a rhetorical question.
outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas? ▼
▼tc The verse is usually understood as a rhetorical question, expecting a “no” answer (e.g. NIV, NASB, ESV, NKJV). The LXX records a negative volitional statement “Let them not flow out.”
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