Proverbs 26:1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ As he that casteth a stone into the heap of Mercury: so is he that giveth honour to a fool.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ LIKE SNOW in summer and like rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a [self-confident] fool. [Isa. 32:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹ Like snow in the summer or rain at harvest, so honor isn’t appropriate for a fool.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ In the manner of snow in the summer, and rain at the harvest, so also is glory unfit for the foolish.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Proverbs 26:1 Cross References

Esther 4:6

1 ll the king's servants, and all the provinces that are under his dominion, know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, cometh into the king's inner court, who is not called for, is immediately to be put to death without any delay: except the king shall hold out the golden sceptre to him, in token of clemency, that so he may live. How then can I go in to the king, who for these thirty days now have not been called unto him?

Esther 4:9

4 For if thou wilt now hold thy peace, the Jews shall be delivered by some other occasion: and thou, and thy father's house shall perish. And who knoweth whether thou art not therefore come to the kingdom, that thou mightest be ready in such a time as this?

Psalm 12:8

Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God, They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one.

Psalm 15:4

The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places: for my inheritance is goodly to me.

Psalm 52:1

But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God for ever, yea for ever and ever.

Proverbs 17:7

4 The beginning of quarrels is as when one letteth out water: before he suffereth reproach he forsaketh judgment.

Proverbs 19:10

7 He that hath mercy on the poor, lendeth to the Lord: and he will repay him.

Proverbs 26:3

0 Judgment determineth causes: and he that putteth a fool to silence, appeaseth anger.

Proverbs 26:8

5 The slothful hideth his hand under his armpit, and it grieveth him to turn it to his mouth.

Proverbs 28:16

3 He that rebuketh a man, shall afterward find favour with him, more than he that by a flattering tongue deceiveth him.

Judges 9:20

5 And they set an ambush against him on the top of the mountains: and while they waited for his coming, they committed robberies, taking spoils of all that passed by: and it was told Abimelech.

Judges 9:7

2 And the trees said to the vine: Come thou and reign over us.