Proverbs 26:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.

Proverbs 26:8 —

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Proverbs 26:1
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
Proverbs 30:22
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
Proverbs 19:10
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

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Fool Speaking

Commentary

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

(vv. 6-9)

To recommend wisdom to us, and to quicken us to the diligent use of all the means for the getting of wisdom, Solomon here shows that fools are fit for nothing; they are either sottish men, who will never think and design at all, or vicious men, who will never think and design well. 1. They are not fit to be entrusted with any business, not fit to go on an errand (Prov. 26:6): He that does but send…

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

(vv. 8)

8. A stone, bound in a sling, is useless; so honor, conferred on a fool, is thrown away.