Proverbs 26:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.

Proverbs 26:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 19:10
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Proverbs 28:16
The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
Psalms 12:8
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Ecclesiastes 10:5-7
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler: …
Judges 9:20
But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1)

Note, 1. It is too common a thing for honour to be given to fools, who are utterly unworthy of it and unfit for it. Bad men, who have neither wit nor grace, are sometimes preferred by princes, and applauded and cried up by the people. Folly is set in great dignity, as Solomon observed, Eccl. 10:6. 2. It is very absurd and unbecoming when it is so. It is an incongruous as snow in summer, and as gre…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

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).