Tree of Life Version
Proverbs 26:1
1Like snow in summer or rain at 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 King James Version (NKJV)As snow in summer and rain in harvest, So honor is not fitting for a fool.
Context of Proverbs 26:1
Like snow in summer or rain at harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. 2Like a fluttering sparrow or a flying swallow, so an undeserved curse does not land. 3A whip for a horse, a bridle for a donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.
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 it not wheat harvest season today? I will call to Adonai, that He may send thunder and rain. Then you will know and see that your wickedness is great which you have done in the sight of Adonai by asking for yourselves a king.”
- Judges 9:7Now when they told Jotam, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, lifted up his voice, called out and said to them, “Listen to me, O lords of Shechem, that God may listen to you!
- Esther 3:1Some time later King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite, elevating him and setting his chair above all the officials who were with him.
- Esther 4:6So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square in front of the king’s gate.
- Psalms 12:8You will keep us safe, Adonai. You will protect us from this generation forever.
- Psalms 15:4who despises a vile person in his eyes, but honors those who fear Adonai, who keeps his oath even when it hurts, and does not change,
- Ecclesiastes 10:5There is a wrong I have seen under the sun like an error proceeding from a 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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