THEOSISProverbs 25:26Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
A just man falling down before the wicked, is as a fountain troubled with the foot and a corrupted spring.
מַעְיָ֣ן נִ֭רְפָּשׂ וּמָק֣וֹר מָשְׁחָ֑ת צַ֝דִּ֗יק מָ֣ט לִפְנֵֽי־רָשָֽׁע׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ezek 34:18Was it not enough for you to feed upon good pastures? but you must also tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures: and when you drank the clearest water, you troubled the rest with your feet.
- Ezek 34:19And my sheep were fed with that which you had trodden with your feet: and they drank what your feet had troubled.
- 1 Sam 22:14And Achimelech answering the king, said: And who amongst all thy servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son in law, and goeth forth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thy house?
- 1 Sam 22:18And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg, the Edomite, turned, and fell upon the priests, and slew in that day eighty-five men that wore the linen ephod.
- Matt 23:34Therefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify: and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city.
- Matt 23:37Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not?
- Matt 26:69But Peter sat without in the court. And there came to him a servant maid, saying: Thou also wast with Jesus the Galilean.
- Matt 26:74Then he began to curse and to swear that he knew not the man. And immediately the cock crew.