Proverbs 25:26
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
Proverbs 25:26 in other translations
| BSB | Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. |
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| WEB | Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked. |
| ASV | As a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, So is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked. |
| YLT | A spring troubled, and a fountain corrupt, Is the righteous falling before the wicked. |
| DARBY | A troubled fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked. |
| BBE | Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers. |
| Webster | A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a turbid fountain, and a corrupt spring. |
What does Proverbs 25:26 mean?
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Proverbs 25:26 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 25:26
- Ezekiel 34:18-19
Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
- Matthew 26:69-74
Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee. But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest. And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth. And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. …
- Genesis 4:8
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
- 1 Samuel 22:14-18
Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house? Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more. And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house. And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the Lord; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord. …
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
- 2 Chronicles 24:21-22
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord. Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The Lord look upon it, and require it.
- Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
- Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
- Matthew 23:34-37
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
- Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
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Context
- Proverbs 25:25
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
- Proverbs 25:26
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
- Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Proverbs 25:26 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Como fuente turbia y manantial corrompido, es el justo que cae delante del impío. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Le juste qui chancelle devant le méchant est une fontaine trouble et une source corrompue. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Getrübter Quell und verderbter Brunnen: so ist der Gerechte, der vor dem Gesetzlosen wankt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Fons turbatus pede et vena corrupta, justus cadens coram impio. |