"Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe" (v. 5). Erin would probably kill me if I spoke about her as if she were some porcelain dish. In fact, when I just asked her what she thought if I were to call her "a lovely deer or a graceful doe" she said, "What the heck are you talking about?"
While the language and culture of Proverbs is ancient, the message is important. Proverbs should be taught in high-school! It is important that it is ingrained into our youth that the insanity that they see in movies and on tv is not how one should model their life. Proverbs acknowledges, in language that captures young minds, that there are temptations. But, there are consequences, both immediate and live-long, Giving in to those temptations leaves one hollow; "you will give your honor to others" and "strangers will take their fill of your wealth" and finally "at the end of your life you will groan."
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