Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before 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.
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 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.
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 water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. 26 Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked. 27 It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 4:8
Cain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
1 Samuel 22:14-18
Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?
2 Chronicles 24:21-22
They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Yahweh.
Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet you are as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.
Ezekiel 34:18-19
Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?
Matthew 23:34-37
Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
Matthew 26:69-74
Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, "You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!"
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men;
Revelation 17:6
I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.