PROVERBS 25:26 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.”
Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked—a warning that the righteous person who surrenders to wickedness becomes a source of corruption, establishing that compromise with evil corrupts the good. The metaphors describe the loss of usefulness that such capitulation produces. The theological significance involves the principle that integrity requires resistance to evil.
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