Proper Treatment of Fools.
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Proverbs 26
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Proverbs 26 — OverviewProverbs 26 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeProverbs 26:1, Observations about fools; Proverbs 26:13, about sluggards; Proverbs 26:17, and about contentious busy-bodies.Proverbs 26 — OverviewProverbs 26 · Little Bible — for children and parentsProverbs 26 is a concentrated study in foolishness, laziness, and deceit. The chapter opens with a series of vivid images showing that honour given to a fool is disordered and even dangerous. It then exposes the…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…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…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.).…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).