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Chinese NCV (Simplified)
ç®´è¨ 26:1
Bible Study Resources
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- InternationalParallel Translations
夏 天 落 雪 ， 收 割 时 下 雨 ， 都 不 相 宜 ； 愚 昧 人 得 尊 荣 也 是 如 此 。
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
in summer: 1 Samuel 12:17, 1 Samuel 12:18
so: Proverbs 26:3, Proverbs 28:16, Judges 9:7, Judges 9:20, Judges 9:56, Judges 9:57, Esther 3:1-15, Esther 4:6, Esther 4:9, Psalms 12:8, Psalms 15:4, Psalms 52:1, *title Ecclesiastes 10:5-7
Reciprocal: Proverbs 26:8 - so
Cross-References
After Abraham died, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac was now living at Beer Lahai Roi.
Now there was a time of hunger in the land, besides the time of hunger that happened during Abraham's life. So Isaac went to the town of Gerar to see Abimelech king of the Philistines.
The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, "Don't go down to Egypt, but live in the land where I tell you to live.
He moved from there and dug another well. No one argued about this one, so he named it Room Enough. Isaac said, "Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will be successful in this land."
That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug, saying, "We found water in that well."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest,.... Which were very undesirable and unseasonable, yea, very hurtful to the fruits of the earth; and a great obstruction to the labourers in the harvest, and a hinderance to the gathering of it in; and were very rare and uncommon in Judea; it was even a miracle for thunder and rain to be in wheat harvest, 1 Samuel 12:17;
so honour is not seemly for a fool: for a wicked man; such should not be favoured by kings, and set in high places of honour and trust; "folly set in great dignity", or foolish and bad men set in honourable places, are as unsuitable and inconvenient as snow and rain in summer and harvest, and should be as rare as they; and they are as hurtful and pernicious, since they discourage virtue and encourage vice, and hinder the prosperity of the commonwealth; such vile persons are contemned in the eyes of good men, and are disregarded of God; he will not give, theft, glory here nor hereafter; the wise shall inherit it, but shame shall be the promotion of fools, Proverbs 3:35; see Ecclesiastes 10:6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In Palestine there is commonly hardly any rain from the early showers of spring to October. Hence, “rain in harvest” became sometimes (see the marginal reference) a supernatural sign, sometimes, as here, a proverb for whatever was strange and incongruous.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XXVI
Honour is not seemly in a fool. The correction and treatment
suitable to such. Of the slothful man. Of him who interferes
with matters which do not concern him. Contentions to be
avoided. Of the dissembler and the lying tongue.
NOTES ON CHAP. XXVI
Verse Proverbs 26:1. As snow in summer — None of these is suitable to the time; and at this unsuitable time, both are unwelcome: so a fool to be in honour is unbecoming.
