New King James Version
Proverbs 26:1
1As snow in summer and rain in harvest, So honor is not fitting for a fool.
Proverbs 26:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
- New International Version (NIV)Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, honor is not fitting for a fool.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Honor is no more associated with fools than snow with summer or rain with harvest.
Context of Proverbs 26:1
As snow in summer and rain in harvest, So honor is not fitting for a fool. 2Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, So a curse without cause shall not alight. 3A whip for the horse, A bridle for the donkey, And a rod for the fool’s back.
Read all of Proverbs 26Proverbs 26:1 word by word
כַּשֶּׁ֤לֶג׀ בַּקַּ֗יִץ וְכַמָּטָ֥ר בַּקָּצִ֑יר כֵּ֤ן לֹא־נָאוֶ֖ה לִכְסִ֣יל כָּבֽוֹד׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 26:1
- 1 Samuel 12:17Is today not the wheat harvest? I will call to the Lord, and He will send thunder and rain, that you may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking a king for yourselves.”
- Judges 9:7Now when they told Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted his voice and cried out. And he said to them: “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, That God may listen to you!
- Esther 3:1After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
- Esther 4:6So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square that was in front of the king’s gate.
- Psalms 12:8The wicked prowl on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.
- Psalms 15:4In whose eyes a vile person is despised, But he honors those who fear the Lord; He who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
- Ecclesiastes 10:5There is an evil I have seen under the sun, As an error proceeding from the ruler:
Commentaries on Proverbs 26:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1As snow in summer - None of these is suitable to the time; and at this unsuitable time, both are unwelcome: so a fool to be in honor is unbecoming.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1In Palestine there is commonly hardly any rain from the early showers of spring to October. Hence, “rain in harvest” became sometimes (see the marginal reference) a supernatural sign, sometimes, as here, a proverb for whatever was strange and incongruous.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Verse 1 Honour is out of season to those unworthy and unfit for it.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1It is not right to honor fools.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-28Pr 26:1-28. 1. The incongruities of nature illustrate also those of the moral world. The fool's unworthiness is also implied (Pr 17:7; 19:10).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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