Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
A muddied spring or a polluted well that's what a righteous person is who compromises with the wicked.
New American Standard Bible
Is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
King James Version
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
Holman Bible
is like a muddied spring or a polluted well.
A Conservative Version
A troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, [is] a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
American Standard Version
As a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring,'so is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.
Amplified
Like a muddied fountain and a polluted spring
Is a righteous man who yields and compromises his integrity before the wicked.
Bible in Basic English
Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.
Darby Translation
A troubled fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.
Julia Smith Translation
A fountain trampled down, and a fountain corrupted, the just one turned aside before the unjust one.
King James 2000
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a muddied fountain, and a polluted spring.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Like] a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is the righteous who gives way before the wicked.
Modern King James verseion
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is like a troubled fountain and a rotten spring.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A righteous man falling down before the ungodly, is like a troubled well and a spring that is destroyed.
NET Bible
Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.
New Heart English Bible
Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
The Emphasized Bible
A fountain fouled, a spring spoiled, is a righteous man tottering before one who is lawless.
Webster
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a turbid fountain, and a corrupt spring.
World English Bible
Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
Youngs Literal Translation
A spring troubled, and a fountain corrupt, Is the righteous falling before the wicked.
Themes
Fountain » Figurative » The turgid, of the debasement of character
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (troubled,) of saints led astray
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 25:26
Verse Info
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More Proverbs Of Solomon
25 Cold water to someone who is thirsty that's what good news from a distant land is. 26 A muddied spring or a polluted well that's what a righteous person is who compromises with the wicked. 27 To eat too much honey isn't good; and neither is it honorable to seek one's own glory.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 4:8
Instead, Cain told his brother Abel, "Let's go out to the wilderness." When they were outside in the fields, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
1 Samuel 22:14-18
Ahimelech answered the king, "Who among all your officials is as faithful as David? He is the king's son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard, and he's honored in your household.
2 Chronicles 24:21-22
But the people conspired against him, and at the direct orders of the king they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD's Temple.
Ezekiel 32:2
"Son of Man, start singing this lamentation about Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Tell him, "You may have called yourself a lion among nations, but you're a monster at sea. You thrash about in your rivers, muddy the water with your feet, and relieve yourself in the rivers.'
Ezekiel 34:18-19
Is it such an insignificant thing to you that you're feeding in good pastures but trampling down the other pastures with your feet? Or that as you're drinking from the clear streams you're muddying the rest with your feet?
Matthew 23:34-37
"That is why I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will whip in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.
Matthew 26:69-74
Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard when a servant girl came up to him and said, "You, too, were with Jesus the Galilean."
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your ancestors fail to persecute? They killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who have persecuted us, and who please neither God nor any group of people,
Revelation 17:6
I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. I was very surprised when I saw her.