Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 25:26
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.
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.
IV. THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON COLLECTED BY THE MEN OF HEZEKIAH CHAPTER 25 Here begin the proverbs which the good king Hezekiah, under the guidance of the Spirit of God, added to this book. “This title...
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. PROVERBS...
TROUBLED. trampled, or fouled....
_falling down_ Better, with R.V., THAT GIVETH WAY, or (marg.) IS MOVED. To see a righteous man moved from his stedfastness through fear or favour in the presence of the wicked is as disheartening, as...
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 depr...
TEXT Proverbs 25:20-28 20. As one that taketh off a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon soda, So is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart, 21. If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread t...
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. A RIG...
25:26 way (b-14) Lit. 'tottereth.'...
The fountain is troubled by the feet of animals (Ezekiel 32:2; Ezekiel 34:18)....
COURTS. QUARRELS 1-7. relate to kings and courts....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 25 MORE OF SOLOMON’S PROVERBS (WISE WORDS) (PROVERBS 25:1 TO PROVERBS 29:27)...
This is terrible. This good man is helping a wicked man with an evil plan. The good man is not trying to do evil things. But he has not realised that he must oppose the plan. He has not realised the e...
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 the...
מַעְיָ֣ן נִ֭רְפָּשׂ וּ מָקֹ֣ור מָשְׁחָ֑ת צַ֝דִּ֗יק...
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 unsearchable...
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 as a b...
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, the...
_Falling into disgrace, or sin, occasions the wicked to exult, as if there were no God or religion. (Calmet)_...
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 rul...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
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 crouchin...
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 f...
_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 their hab...
A righteous man falling down before the wicked, wavering before the craft of the wicked, lacking moral firmness, IS AS A TROUBLED FOUNTAIN AND A CORRUPT SPRING, from either of which pure and healthy w...
TRUE WISDOM THE HIGHEST GOOD OF KINGS AND SUBJECTS....
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, -...
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 lusts,...
Proverbs 25:26 righteous H6662 falters H4131 (H8801) before H6440 wicked H7563 murky H7515 (H8737) spring H4599
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson, Proverbs 25:21; Proverbs 25:22.) The way to turn an enemy into a friend is to act friendly towa...
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 the boo...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 25:1 Hezekiah’s Collection of Solomonic Proverbs 1:1. The present form of the book of...
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. There can nev...
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 king and his subjects...
Now in chapter 25. These proverbs were gathered by Hezekiah when he became king, and they were added to the books of proverbs by Hezekiah's scribes. During the period of Hezekiah's reign, it was a per...
1 Samuel 22:14; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 2 Chronicles 24:21; 2 Chronicles 24:22;...
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....