Proverbs 26:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for 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.

Proverbs 26:1 Cross References

Proverbs 19:10

It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.

Proverbs 28:16

A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, but one who hates unjust gain will enjoy a long life.

Psalm 12:8

On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among humankind.

Proverbs 26:8

It is like binding a stone in a sling to give honor to a fool.

Proverbs 17:7

Excess speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a ruler.

Psalm 52:1

Why do you boast, O mighty one, of mischief done against the godly? All day long

Psalm 15:4

in whose eyes the wicked are despised but who honor those who fear the Lord; who stand by their oath even to their hurt;

Esther 4:9

Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said.

Esther 4:6

Hathach went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king’s gate,

Judges 9:20

but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the lords of Shechem and Beth-millo, and let fire come out from the lords of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech.”

Judges 9:7

When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, “Listen to me, you lords of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.

Proverbs 26:3

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.