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Chinese NCV (Simplified)
ç®´è¨ 25:26
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- AmericanEncyclopedias:
- InternationalParallel Translations
义 人 在 恶 人 面 前 退 缩 ， 好 像 ? 浑 之 泉 ， 弄 浊 之 井 。
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Genesis 4:8, 1 Samuel 22:14-18, 2 Chronicles 24:21, 2 Chronicles 24:22, Matthew 23:34-37, Matthew 26:69-74, Acts 7:52, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, Revelation 17:6
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:27 - his eyes 2 Samuel 4:11 - when wicked 2 Peter 2:8 - that
Cross-References
Isaac loved Esau because he hunted the wild animals that Isaac enjoyed eating. But Rebekah loved Jacob.
So Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red soup, because I am weak with hunger." (That is why people call him Edom.)
Esau said, "Jacob is the right name for him. He has tricked me these two times. He took away my share of everything you own, and now he has taken away my blessing." Then Esau asked, "Haven't you saved a blessing for me?"
Their ancestor Jacob held on to his brother's heel while the two of them were being born. When he grew to be a man, he wrestled with God.
Gill's Notes on the 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 crouching unto him, bowing before him, yielding to him, not daring to oppose or reprove him; or falling into sin in his presence, which he ever after reproaches him for, and openly exposes him, so that his usefulness is lost; and especially if he joins with the wicked man in his course of living; and particularly if a civil magistrate, and acts unrighteously in his office: he
[is as] a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring; like a spring or fountain muddied with the feet of men or beasts; so that; he who was before as a clear spring of flowing water, a fountain of justice to his neighbours, from whom good doctrine and wholesome advice flowed, is now of no use by instruction or example, but the contrary.
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 defiled.
