Proverbs 25:26
24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
25 As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
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
Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
Read in contextMatthew 26:69–74
Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.
Read in contextGenesis 4:8
And Cain talked with 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.
Read in context1 Samuel 22:14–18
Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
Read in context1 Thessalonians 2:15
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
Read in context2 Chronicles 24:21–22
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
Read in contextActs 7:52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
Read in contextEzekiel 32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
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