Proverbs 25:26

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

A spring troubled, and a fountain corrupt, `Is' the righteous falling before the wicked.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 4:8 : 8 And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, ``Let us go into the field;'' and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.
  • 1 Sam 22:14-18 : 14 And Ahimelech answereth the king and saith, `And who among all thy servants `is' as David -- faithful, and son-in-law of the king, and hath turned aside unto thy council, and is honoured in thy house? 15 To-day have I begun to ask for him at God? far be it from me! let not the king lay anything against his servant, against any of the house of my father, for thy servant hath known nothing of all this, less or more.' 16 And the king saith, `Thou dost surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all the house of thy father.' 17 And the king saith to runners, those standing by him, `Turn round, and put to death the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also `is' with David, and because they have known that he is fleeing, and have not uncovered mine ear;' and the servants of the king have not been willing to put forth their hand to come against the priests of Jehovah. 18 And the king saith to Doeg, `Turn round thou, and come against the priests;' and Doeg the Edomite turneth round, and cometh himself against the priests, and putteth to death in that day eighty and five men bearing a linen ephod,
  • 2 Chr 24:21-22 : 21 And they conspire against him, and stone him with stones by the command of the king, in the court of the house of Jehovah, 22 and Joash the king hath not remembered the kindness that Jehoiada his father did with him, and slayeth his son, and in his death he said, `Jehovah doth see, and require.'
  • Ezek 32:2 : 2 `Son of man, lift up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and thou hast said unto him: A young lion of nations thou hast been like, And thou `art' as a dragon in the seas, And thou comest forth with thy flowings, And dost trouble the waters with thy feet, And thou dost foul their flowings.
  • Ezek 34:18-19 : 18 Is it a little thing for you -- the good pasture ye enjoy, And the remnant of your pasture ye tread down with your feet, And a depth of waters ye do drink, And the remainder with your feet ye trample, 19 And My flock the trodden thing of your feet consumeth, And the trampled thing of your feet drinketh?
  • Matt 23:34-37 : 34 `Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city; 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar: 36 verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. 37 `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.
  • Matt 26:69-74 : 69 And Peter without was sitting in the court, and there came near to him a certain maid, saying, `And thou wast with Jesus of Galilee!' 70 And he denied before all, saying, `I have not known what thou sayest.' 71 And he having gone forth to the porch, another female saw him, and saith to those there, `And this one was with Jesus of Nazareth;' 72 and again did he deny with an oath -- `I have not known the man.' 73 And after a little those standing near having come, said to Peter, `Truly thou also art of them, for even thy speech doth make thee manifest.' 74 Then began he to anathematise, and to swear -- `I have not known the man;' and immediately did a cock crow,
  • Acts 7:52 : 52 which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,
  • 1 Thess 2:15 : 15 who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men `are' contrary,
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder -- having seen her -- with great wonder;

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    11A fountain of life `is' the mouth of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.

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    16Better `is' the little of the righteous, Than the store of many wicked.

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    19The evil have bowed down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

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    3A man is not established by wickedness, And the root of the righteous is not moved.

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    28In the rising of the wicked a man is hidden, And in their destruction the righteous multiply!

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  • Prov 15:28
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    28The heart of the righteous meditateth to answer, And the mouth of the wicked uttereth evil things.

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