Proverbs 25:26

In 11 translations

BSB

Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.

KJV

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

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.

LSV

A spring troubled, and a fountain corrupt, || [Is] the righteous falling before the wicked.

YLT

A spring troubled, and a fountain corrupt, [Is] the righteous falling before the wicked.

DBY

A troubled fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous [man] that giveth way before the wicked.

DRC

A just man falling down before the wicked, is as a fountain troubled with the foot, and a corrupted spring.

GNV

A righteous man falling downe before the wicked, is like a troubled well, and a corrupt spring.

JPS

As a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, so is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.

LXXE

As if one should stop a well, and corrupt a spring of water, so is it unseemly for a righteous man to fall before an ungodly man.

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Original-language editions

WLC

מַעְיָ֣ן נִ֭רְפָּשׂ וּמָק֣וֹר מָשְׁחָ֑ת צַ֝דִּ֗יק מָ֣ט לִפְנֵֽי־רָשָֽׁע׃

LXX-Br

Ὥσπερ εἴ τις πηγὴν φράσσοι καὶ ὕδατος ἔξοδον λυμαίνοιτο, οὕτως ἄκοσμον δίκαιον πεπτωκέναι ἐνώπιον ἀσεβοῦς.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Ezekiel 34:18–19Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink the clear waters? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? Why…
• Matthew 26:69–74Meanwhile, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up to him. “You also were with Jesus the Galilean,” she said. But he denied it before them all: “I do not know what you are talking about.”…
• 1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
• Genesis 4:8Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
• 2 Chronicles 24:21–22But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD. Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended…
• 1 Samuel 22:14–18Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard who is honored in your house? Was that day the first time I inquired of God for…
• Matthew 23:34–37Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town. And so upon you will come all…
• Ezekiel 32:2“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet…
• Revelation 17:6I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.
• Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

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