Proverbs 26:1
Proverbs chapter 26 · verse 1 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honor is not seemly for a fool.
KJV
King James Version · 1611As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honor is not seemly for a fool.
Context
v.1This passage
v.2As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, So the curse that is causeless alighteth not.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Esther 3:1
After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
- Proverbs 19:10
Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
- Proverbs 17:7
Excellent speech becometh not a fool; Much less do lying lips a prince.
- Judges 9:7
And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
- Proverbs 26:8
As one that bindeth a stone in a sling, So is he that giveth honor to a fool.
- Psalms 15:4
In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honoreth them that fear Jehovah; He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;