Proverbs 26:1

All About Fools

¹ As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honour is not comely for a fool. ² As a bird by wandering, as a swallow by flying, So reviling without cause doth not come.

Like Snow

Judges 9:7

and they declare it to Jotham, and he goeth and standeth on the top of mount Gerizim, and lifteth up his voice, and calleth, and saith to them, 'Hearken unto me, O masters of Shechem, and God doth hearken unto you:

Judges 9:20

and if not -- fire cometh out from Abimelech and devoureth the masters of Shechem and the house of Millo, and fire cometh out from the masters of Shechem and from the house of Millo, and devoureth Abimelech.'

Judges 9:56-57

and God turneth back the evil of Abimelech which he did to his father to slay his seventy brethren;

1 Samuel 12:17-18

is it not wheat-harvest to-day? I call unto Jehovah, and He doth give voices and rain; and know ye and see that your evil is great which ye have done in the eyes of Jehovah, to ask for you a king.'

Esther 3:1-15

After these things hath the king Ahasuerus exalted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and lifteth him up, and setteth his throne above all the heads who are with him,

Esther 4:6

And Hatach goeth out unto Mordecai, unto a broad place of the city, that is before the gate of the king,

Esther 4:9

And Hatach cometh in and declareth to Esther the words of Mordecai,

Psalm 12:8

Around the wicked walk continually, According as vileness is exalted by sons of men!

Psalm 15:4

Despised in his eyes is a rejected one, And those fearing Jehovah he doth honour. He hath sworn to suffer evil, and changeth not;

Psalm 52:1

To the Overseer. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, 'David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God is all the day.

Proverbs 17:7

Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.

Proverbs 19:10

Luxury is not comely for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule among princes.

Proverbs 26:3

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

Proverbs 26:8

As one who is binding a stone in a sling, So is he who is giving honour to a fool.

Proverbs 28:16

A leader lacking understanding multiplieth oppressions, Whoso is hating dishonest gain prolongeth days.

Ecclesiastes 10:5-7

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, As an error that goeth out from the ruler,