As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
The saying stands within the group running from chapter 25 through chapter 29, drawn from Solomon's material and transcribed by men assigned under Hezekiah. That section beginning with chapter 25 consists of selections copied out from Solomon's many writings by Hezekiah's scribes. Solomon produced three thousand proverbs, and the greater part of the book was composed about the year one thousand and afterward. To bestow honor on a fool is as incongruous as snowfall in the warm season or rainfall at harvest time. Such unseasonable conditions disrupt their proper season, and by that contrast the saying sets forth the fittingness that ought to govern praise and recognition.
The saying stands within the group running from chapter 25 through chapter 29, drawn from Solomon's material and transcribed by men assigned under Hezekiah. That section beginning with chapter 25 consists of selections copied out from Solomon's many writings by Hezekiah's scribes. Solomon produced three thousand proverbs, and the greater part of the book was composed about the year one thousand and afterward. To bestow honor on a fool is as incongruous as snowfall in the warm season or rainfall at harvest time. Such unseasonable conditions disrupt their proper season, and by that contrast the saying sets forth the fittingness that ought to govern praise and recognition.