Proverb to remember: Like a muddied spring or a polluted well are the righteous who give way to the wicked. Proverbs 25:26

The Book of Proverbs, in its second collection of Solomonic teachings, gives a series of moral and religious advice to remember and always keep in mind.
Although these sentences were not written by Solomon, to whom the authorship of the book is attributed, but instead by scribes from the court of King Hezekiah, their value as sapiential texts is not minor, and they ultimately synthesize the wisdom of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel before its destruction.
As in all the teachings related to the proverbs, there is one teaching that is the basis of all others, there are two paths (righteousness and sin) and two retributions (beatitude and misfortune), and men must choose with intelligence.
This is why the ancient wise men of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah wrote a wise proverb: "Like a muddied spring or a polluted well are the righteous who give way to the wicked" Proverbs 25:26.
The ancient kingdoms of Judah and Israel were based on agriculture and livestock, and this is why the proverb refers to water that comes out of a fountain or spring; like all water that arises from the depths of the earth, this water emerges to the surface naturally filtered and suitable for consumption. And so to explain with a metaphor what is contrary to the nature the wise proverb compares the righteous man who submits to the perversion of a fool with that spring water that comes out contaminated from its source. Like King David who defeated with determination those who opposed God's plan, so should be the conduct of all people who choose the righteous life ("Do not do to anyone what you yourself hate" Tobit 4:15). The righteous life is a commitment with the necessity of the good.

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