Honour is out of season to those unworthy and unfit for it.
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Proverbs 26:1
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Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:1Proverbs 26:1 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleNote, 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…The Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:1-28Proverbs 26:1-28 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITIONThe Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:1-12Proverbs 26:1-12 · The Pulpit CommentaryCertain proverbs concerning the fool (kesil), with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22).The Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:1Proverbs 26:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryAs 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…The Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:1-3Proverbs 26:1-3 · The Pulpit CommentarySayings 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…
commentaryMatthew 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 26:1-28EXPOSITIONJoseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe 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 contributors