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Proverbs 26:1-28
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commentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 26:1Honour is out of season to those unworthy and unfit for it.Matthew HenrycommentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 26:1Note, 1. It is too common a thing for honour 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…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:1-3Sayings against folly I. THE INAPTNESS OF HONOURS TO THE FOOLISH MAN. (Proverbs 26:1.) According to Jerome, it is something unheard of or impossible to experience, rain in the harvest time (see 1 Samuel 12:17, sqq.). Th…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:1As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest. Snow in summer would be quite unnatural and unheard of (see on Proverbs 25:13). Rain falls in the usual course of things only at stated times; whence arose the phrase of "the e…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:1-12Certain proverbs concerning the fool (kesil), with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22).Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 26:2He that is cursed without cause, the curse shall do him no more harm than the bird that flies over his head.Matthew HenrycommentaryMatthew Henry on Proverbs 26:2Here is, 1. The folly of passion. It makes men scatter causeless curses, wishing ill to others upon presumption that they are bad and have done ill, when either they mistake the person or misunderstand the fact, or they…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:2The curse causeless I. GOD WILL NOT HEAR A SINFUL PRAYER. A curse is a prayer. No ode has the power of inflicting direct harm upon his victim by sheer force of malignant words. Only the superstition of magic could suppo…Joseph S. Exell and contributors