Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is like a troubled fountain and a rotten spring.
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.
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 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 Like cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. 26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is like a troubled fountain and a rotten spring. 27 It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 4:8
And Cain talked with his brother Abel. And it happened when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
1 Samuel 22:14-18
And Ahimelech answered the king and said, And who is so faithful among all your servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and who goes at your bidding, and who is honorable in your house?
2 Chronicles 24:21-22
And they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.
Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You were like a young lion of the nations, but you were like a sea-monster. And you came out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.
Ezekiel 34:18-19
Is it a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the rest with your feet?
Matthew 23:34-37
Therefore, behold, I send prophets and wise men and scribes to you. And you will kill and crucify some of them. And some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city;
Matthew 26:69-74
And Peter sat outside in the court. And a girl came to him, saying, You also were with Jesus of Galilee.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now been the betrayers and murderers;
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and being contrary to all men,
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with a great marveling.