Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
A fountain trampled down, and a fountain corrupted, the just one turned aside before the unjust one.
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.
International Standard Version
A muddied spring or a polluted well that's what a righteous person is who compromises with the wicked.
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.
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
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 25:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
More Proverbs Of Solomon
25 Cold waters to the fainting soul, and a good message from a land far off. 26 A fountain trampled down, and a fountain corrupted, the just one turned aside before the unjust one. 27 To eat much honey is not good: and to seek out their honor, not honor.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 4:8
And Cain will speak to Abel his brother; and it shall be in their being in the field, Cain will rise up against Abel his brother, and will kill him.
1 Samuel 22:14-18
And Ahimelech will answer the king and say, And who among all thy servants faithful as David, and son-in-law of the king, and he departed at hearing thee, and honored in thy house?
2 Chronicles 24:21-22
And they will conspire against him, and stone him with stone by the commands of the king in the enclosure of the house of Jehovah.
Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, lift up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, Thou wert like a young lion of the nations, and thou as a whale in the seas: and thou wilt break forth with thy rivers, and trouble the waters with thy feet, and thou wilt tread their rivers.
Ezekiel 34:18-19
Is it small for you ye will feed the good pasture, and the remainder of your pastures ye will tread down with your feet? and ye will drink front the settled waters and that being left they will tread with your feet
Matthew 23:34-37
Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, and the wise, and scribes: and of them shall ye kill and crucify; and of them shall ye chastise in your assemblies, and drive out from city to city,
Matthew 26:69-74
And Peter sat without in the court-yard, and one young girl came to him saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did not your fathers drive out and they slew them announcing beforehand of the coming of the Just; of whom ye have now been traitors and murderers:
1 Thessalonians 2:15
They also having slain the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and having driven you out; and not pleasing God, and opposite to all men;
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman intoxicated from the blood of the holy, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus: and wondered, seeing her, with great wonder.