THEOSISProverbs 26:1Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
As snow in summer, and rain in harvest, so glory is not seemly for a fool.
כַּשֶּׁ֤לֶג ׀ בַּקַּ֗יִץ וְכַמָּטָ֥ר בַּקָּצִ֑יר כֵּ֤ן לֹא־נָאוֶ֖ה לִכְסִ֣יל כָּבֽוֹד׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 19:10Delicacies are not seemly for a fool: nor for a servant to have rule over princes.
- Prov 28:16A prince void of prudence shall oppress many by calumny: but he that hateth covetousness, shall prolong his days.
- Ps 12 (11):8
- Judg 9:20But if unjustly: let fire come out from him, and consume the inhabitants of Sichem, and the town of Mello: and let fire come out from the men of Sichem and from the town of Mello, and devour Abimelech.
- Prov 17:7Eloquent words do not become a fool, nor lying lips a prince.
- Eccl 10:5There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were by an error proceeding from the face of the prince:
- Eccl 10:7I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the ground as servants.
- Judg 9:7This being told to Joatham, he went, and stood on the top of Mount Garizim: and lifting up his voice, he cried, and said: Hear me, ye men of Sichem, so may God hear you.