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Proverbs 26:1
New Living Translation

1    Honor is no more associated with fools
       than snow with summer or rain with harvest.

Matthew Henry’s Commentary

  • Chapter 26

    Verse 1

    Note, 1. It is too common a thing for honor to be given to fools, who are utterly unworthy of it and unfit for it. Bad men, who have neither wit nor grace, are sometimes preferred by princes and applauded and cried up by the people. Folly is set in great dignity, as Solomon observed, Eccl. 10:6.

    2. It is very absurd and unbecoming when it is so. It is an incongruous as snow in summer, and as great a disorder in the commonwealth as that is in the course of nature and in the seasons of the year; nay, it is as injurious as rain in harvest, which hinders the laborers and spoils the fruits of the earth when they are ready to be gathered. When bad men are in power they commonly abuse their power, in discouraging virtue, and giving countenance to wickedness, for want of wisdom to discern it and grace to detest it.

    Ecclesiastes 10:6
    New Living Translation

    6 when they give great authority to foolish people and low positions to people of proven worth.

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