Proverbs 26:1 Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, honor is not fitting for a fool.

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New International Version
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, honor is not fitting for a fool.

English Standard Version
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

New American Standard Bible
Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest, So honor is not fitting for a fool.

King James Bible
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor is inappropriate for a fool.

International Standard Version
Like snowfall in summer or rain at harvest time, so honor is inappropriate for a fool.

American Standard Version
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honor is not seemly for a fool.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As snow in summer, and rain in harvest, so glory is not seemly for a fool.

Darby Bible Translation
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour beseemeth not a fool.

Young's Literal Translation
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honour is not comely for a fool.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

26:1 Honour is out of season to those unworthy and unfit for it.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 26

Pr 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).

Proverbs 25:28

Proverbs 26:2

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