Proverbs 25:26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁶ Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ A righteous man falling down before the wicked Is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Like a muddied fountain and a polluted spring is a righteous man who yields, falls down, and compromises his integrity before the wicked.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ As a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, So is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.

Common English Bible

²⁶ A righteous person giving in to the wicked is like a contaminated spring or a polluted fountain.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ The just falling down before the impious is like a fountain stirred up by feet and like a corrupted spring.

Proverbs 25:26 Krydshenvisninger

Genesis 4:8

Cain said to Abel his brother, “Let us go out to the field.” And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him.

Ezekiel 32:2

“Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: “You consider yourself a lion among the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all men

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her I marveled greatly.