Proverbs 25:26 (BSB)

Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.

From Proverbs 25. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 25:26

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 25:26: It is here represented as a very lamentable thing, and a public grievance, and of ill consequence to many, like the troubling of a fountain and the corrupting of a spring, for the righteous to fall down before the wicked, that is, 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 25:26: It is not good to eat much honey,.... That is too much otherwise it is good to eat, Pro 24:13; but too much is hurtful, it surfeits the stomach increases choler (e) and creates loathing; and indeed, too much of anything is bad (f); so for men to search their own glory is not glory: to set forth their own excellencies, to sound forth their...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 25:26: From troubled fountains and corrupt springs no healthy water is to be had, so when the righteous are oppressed by the wicked, their power for good is lessened or destroyed.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 25:26: Pro 25:26 26 A troubled fountain and a ruined spring - A righteous man yielding to a godless man. For the most part, in מט one thinks of a yielding in consequence of being forced. Thus e.g., Fleischer: as a troubled ruined spring is a misfortune for the people who drink out of it, or draw from it, so is it a misfortune for the...