Proverbs 26:1

NET ©

Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor 1  is not fitting for a fool. 2 

NIV ©

Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, honour is not fitting for a fool.

NASB ©

Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest, So honor is not fitting for a fool.

NLT ©

Honor doesn’t go with fools any more than snow with summer or rain with harvest.

MSG ©

We no more give honors to fools than pray for snow in summer or rain during harvest.

BBE ©

Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.

NRSV ©

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

NKJV ©

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

KJV
As snow
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in summer
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and as rain
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in harvest
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so honour
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is not seemly
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for a fool
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HEBREW
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lyokl
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hwan
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Nk
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ryuqb
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rjmkw
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Uyqb
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glsk (26:1)
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LXXM
(33:1) wsper
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ADV
drosov
 
N-NSF
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PREP
amhtw
 
N-DSM
kai
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CONJ
wsper
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ADV
uetov
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N-NSM
en
<1722>  
PREP
yerei
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N-DSN
outwv
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ADV
ouk
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ADV
estin
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V-PAI-3S
afroni
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A-DSM
timh
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N-NSF
NET © [draft] ITL
Like snow
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in summer
<07019>
or rain
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in harvest
<07105>
, so
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honor
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is not
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fitting
<05000>
for a fool
<03684>
.
NET © Notes

1 sn “Honor” in this passage probably means respect, external recognition of worth, accolades, advancement to high position, etc. All of these would be out of place with a fool; so the sage is warning against elevating or acclaiming those who are worthless. See also J. A. Emerton, “Notes on Some Passages in the Book of Proverbs,” VT 15 (1965): 271-79.

2 sn The first twelve verses of this chapter, Prov 26:1-12, are sometimes called “the Book of Fools” because they deal with the actions of fools.