Proverbs 25:26 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

Ezekiel 32:2

Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou wast likened unto a young lion of the nations: yet art thou as a dragon in the seas; and thou brakest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them which shewed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drave out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder.