Proverbs 25:26
24 Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
25 Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land.
Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
27 It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
28 Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
- KJV
- A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
- WEB
- Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
- ASV
- [As] a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, [So is] a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.
- DARBY
- A troubled fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous [man] that giveth way before the wicked.
- BLB
- A spring made foul or a well spoiled [is] a righteous one swaying before the face of a wicked one.
- ÅB
- Som en grumset kilde og en utskjemt brønn er en rettferdig som gir etter for en ugudelig.
- OTB
- Som en gjørmete kilde eller en forurenset brønn er de rettferdige som gir etter for de onde.
- B1930
- Som en grumset kilde og en utskjemt brønn er en rettferdig som gir efter for en ugudelig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 34:18–19
Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink the clear waters? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?
Read in contextMatthew 26:69–74
Meanwhile, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up to him. “You also were with Jesus the Galilean,” she said.
Read in contextGenesis 4:8
Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
Read in context1 Samuel 22:14–18
Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard who is honored in your house?
Read in context1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
Read in context2 Chronicles 24:21–22
But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
Read in contextActs 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
Read in contextEzekiel 32:2
“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’
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