Proverbs 26:1

All About Fools

¹ Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest,
So honor is not fitting for a fool.
² Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,
So a curse without cause does not alight.

Like Snow

Judges 9:7

Now when they told Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted his voice and called out. Thus he said to them, “Listen to me, O men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

Judges 9:20

But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and consume the men of Shechem and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from Beth-millo, and consume Abimelech.”

Judges 9:56-57

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father in killing his seventy brothers.

1 Samuel 12:17-18

Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call to the Lord, that He may send thunder and rain. Then you will know and see that your wickedness is great which you have done in the sight of the Lord by asking for yourselves a king.”

Esther 3:1-15

After these events King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and established his authority over all the princes who were with him.

Esther 4:6

So Hathach went out to Mordecai to the city square in front of the king’s gate.

Esther 4:9

Hathach came back and related Mordecai’s words to Esther.

Psalm 12:8

The wicked strut about on every side
When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

Psalm 15:4

In whose eyes a reprobate is despised,
But who honors those who fear the Lord;
He swears to his own hurt and does not change;

Psalm 52:1

For the choir director. A Maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.

Proverbs 17:7

Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool,
Much less are lying lips to a prince.

Proverbs 19:10

Luxury is not fitting for a fool;
Much less for a slave to rule over princes.

Proverbs 26:3

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey,
And a rod for the back of fools.

Proverbs 26:8

Like one who binds a stone in a sling,
So is he who gives honor to a fool.

Proverbs 28:16

A leader who is a great oppressor lacks understanding,
But he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

Ecclesiastes 10:5-7

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like an error which goes forth from the ruler—