Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.
New American Standard Bible
So honor is not
King James Version
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
Holman Bible
honor is inappropriate for a fool.
International Standard Version
Like snowfall in summer or rain at harvest time, so honor is inappropriate for a fool.
A Conservative Version
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool.
American Standard Version
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honor is not seemly for a fool.
Amplified
So honor is not fitting for a [shortsighted]
Darby Translation
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour beseemeth not a fool.
Julia Smith Translation
As snow in summer and as rain in harvest., so honor not becoming to the foolish one.
King James 2000
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Like snow in the summer and like rain at the harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
Modern King James verseion
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not becoming for a fool.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Like as snow is not mete in summer, nor rain in harvest; even so is worship unseemly for a fool.
NET Bible
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
New Heart English Bible
Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
The Emphasized Bible
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so, unbecoming to a dullard is honour.
Webster
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest; so honor is not seemly for a fool.
World English Bible
Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
Youngs Literal Translation
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honour is not comely for a fool.
Themes
Agriculture » Operations in » Harvest
Fools » Honor is unbecoming for
Harvest » Illustrative » (rain in,) of honor given to fools
Honor » Who honor is not seemly for
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 26:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Fools
1 Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish. 2 As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.
Phrases
Cross References
Judges 9:7
Now Jotham, on hearing of it, went to the top of Mount Gerizim, and crying out with a loud voice said to them, Give ear to me, you townsmen of Shechem, so that God may give ear to you.
Judges 9:20
But if not, may fire come out from Abimelech, burning up the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo; and may fire come out from the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo, for the destruction of Abimelech.
Judges 9:56-57
In this way Abimelech was rewarded by God for the evil he had done to his father in putting his seventy brothers to death;
1 Samuel 12:17-18
Is it not now the time of the grain cutting? My cry will go up to the Lord and he will send thunder and rain: so that you may see and be conscious of your great sin which you have done in the eyes of the Lord in desiring a king for yourselves.
Esther 3:1-15
After these things, by the order of the king, Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, was lifted up and given a position of honour and a higher place than all the other captains who were with him.
Esther 4:6
So Hathach went out and saw Mordecai in the open square of the town before the king's doorway.
Esther 4:9
And Hathach came back and gave Esther an account of what Mordecai had said.
Psalm 12:8
The sinners are walking on every side, and evil is honoured among the children of men.
Psalm 52:1
Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?
Proverbs 17:7
Fair words are not to be looked for from a foolish man, much less are false lips in a ruler.
Proverbs 19:10
Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.
Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish.
Proverbs 26:8
Giving honour to a foolish man is like attempting to keep a stone fixed in a cord.
Proverbs 28:16
The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.
Ecclesiastes 10:5-7
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which comes by chance from a ruler: