Proverbs 25:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. ”

• Proverbs 25:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Falling down before - i. e., Yielding and cringing. To see this instead of stedfastness, is as grievous as for the traveler to find the spring at which he hoped to quench his thirst turbid and de...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  First Division. In general character this division shows a resemblance to the Sayings of the Wise, containing a number of quatrains and synthetic couplets, and but few antithetic couplets. Prov...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  troubled . trampled, or fouled.

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And a corrupt spring— See the note on 2 Chronicles 32:4 . Besides the methods of stopping up wells and breaking down cisterns there mentioned, the eastern people sometimes practised another way to...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring....

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Courts. Quarrels 1-7. relate to kings and courts.

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  A righteous man falling down before the wicked ... — The mouth of the righteous was described ( Proverbs 10:11 ) as a “well of life,” from the comfort and refreshment it brings to the weary- through...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 26 THE KING "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. The heaven for height and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearch...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Self-Control and Kindliness Proverbs 25:15-28 In this paragraph we have good advice as to our dealings with the varied characters with whom we are forced into daily contact. Here is a man hard...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now come to the second collection of the proverbs of Solomon. These, as the title specifically declares, constitute a posthumous collection gathered in the days of Hezekiah. Speaking generally, th...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. He that hath no ru...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  A righteous man falling dozen before the wicked ,.... Either falling into calamity and distress by means of the wicked man, through his malice and cunning, and which be seeing, rejoices at; or crouc...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  A righteous man falling down before the wicked [is as] a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. Ver. 26. A righteous man falling down before the wicked, ] i.e., Doing anything, though by mere...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  A righteous man falling down before the wicked , &c. When a righteous man is either allured or terrified into any sinful practice by wicked men, or into any base and servile compliance with thei...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  In This CHAPTER, forming the first section, necessarily affirms the basic principles of true unity, which is absolutely essential to recovery. For departure is the very breeding-ground of division, -...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.       It is here represented as a very lamentable thing, and a public grievance, and of...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Falling down; either, 1. Into sin. So the sense is, When a just man is either allured or terrified into any sinful practice before wicked men, or into any base and servile compliance with their l...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 25:26 . Falling down — i.e., “yielding ” or “ wavering .” Corrupt . Rather “ Ruined .” MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 25:26 THE EVIL RESULT OF MORAL COWARDICE I. T...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 25:1 . These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah copied out. Solomon wrote three thousand proverbs, and a thousand and five songs. 1 Kings 4:32 . The supplement to th...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Verse 1-29:27 Part VI. SECOND GREAT COLLECTION OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS , gathered by "the men of Hezekiah," in which wisdom is set forth as the greatest blessing to the...

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• Proverbs 25:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  True Wisdom the Highest Good of Kings and Subjects.

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 22:14-18 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:15 ; 2 Chronicles 24:21 ; 2 Chronicles 24:22 ; Acts 7:52 ; Genesis 4:8 ; Matthew 23:34-37 ; Matthew 26:69-74 ; Revelation 17:6

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• Proverbs 25:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Falling — When righteous men are oppressed by the wicked, the state of that common — wealth is as deplorable, as if the publick fountains were corrupted.

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