Proverbs 25:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain are the righteous who give 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ A just man falling down before the wicked, is as a fountain troubled with the foot, and a corrupted spring.

Proverbs 25:26 Cross References

Genesis 4:8

Cain said to his brother Abel, “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

Mortal, 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 thrash about in your streams, trouble the water with your feet, and foul your streams.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and drove us out; they displease God and oppose everyone

Revelation 17:6

And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly amazed.