Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

义人在恶人面前退缩，好像趟浑之泉，弄浊之井。

义人在恶人面前退缩，好像搅浑之泉，污染之井。

义人在恶人面前退缩，好像搅浑之泉，污染之井。

义人向恶人低头，就像清泉被搅浑，水井受污染。

义人在恶人面前屈服，好像混浊了的水泉、污染了的水井。

义人在恶人面前动摇，就如被践踏的泉源，受污染的水泉。

義人在惡人面前退縮，好像蹚渾之泉，弄濁之井。

義人在惡人面前退縮，好像攪渾之泉，污染之井。

義人在惡人面前退縮，好像攪渾之泉，污染之井。

義人向惡人低頭，就像清泉被攪渾，水井受污染。

義人在惡人面前屈服，好像混濁了的水泉、污染了的水井。

義人在惡人面前退讓，好像踹渾的泉源、踏濁的水源。

義人在惡人面前動搖，就如被踐踏的泉源，受汙染的水泉。

義人為惡人而卻退、如泉渾井濁、

義人失足、為惡者目擊、猶混源濁井。

善人於惡人前傾躓、如泉渾井濁、

Like a muddied spring or a polluted well are the righteous who give way to the wicked.

Sometimes godly people give in to those who are evil. Then they become like a muddy spring of water or a polluted well.

If the godly give in to the wicked, it’s like polluting a fountain or muddying a spring.

A righteous person who yields to the wicked is like a muddied spring or a polluted well.

Like a trampled spring and a polluted well, So is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.

A righteous man who falters before the wicked Is like a murky spring and a polluted well.

As a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, So is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.

A righteous person who yields to the wicked is like a muddied spring or a polluted well.

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

Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.

Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly.

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said,“ You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”But he denied it before them all, saying,“ I do not know what you mean.”And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders,“ This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”And again he denied it with an oath:“ I do not know the man.”After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter,“ Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.”Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear,“ I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed.

Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of clear water, that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet?And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.“ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord.Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said,“ May the Lord see and avenge!”

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind

Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,

“ Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:“ You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.

Then Ahimelech answered the king,“ And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house?Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little.”And the king said,“ You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house.”And the king said to the guard who stood about him,“ Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the Lord.Then the king said to Doeg,“ You turn and strike the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.