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Proverbs 26:1
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KJ21
As snow in summer and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool.
ASV
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honor is not seemly for a fool.
AMP
Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest, So honor is not fitting for a [shortsighted] fool.
AMPC
Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a [self-confident] fool.
BRG
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
CSB
Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor is inappropriate for a fool.
CSBA
Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honour is inappropriate for a fool.
CEB
Like snow in the summer or rain at harvest, so honor isn’t appropriate for a fool.
CJB
Like snow in summer or rain at harvest-time, so honor for a fool is out of place.
CEV
Expecting snow in summer and rain in the dry season makes more sense than honoring a fool.
DARBY
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour beseemeth not a fool.
DRA
As snow in summer, and rain in harvest, so glory is not seemly for a fool.
ERV
Just as snow should not fall in summer, nor rain at harvest time, so people should not honor a fool.
EASY
It is not right to give honour to a fool. It is as silly as snow that falls in summer, or rain that falls at the time of harvest.
EHV
Like snow during summer and rain during the harvest, so honor is not appropriate for a fool.
ESV
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
ESVUK
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honour is not fitting for a fool.
EXB
It shouldn’t snow in summer or rain at harvest. Neither should a foolish person ever be honored.
GNV
As the snow in the Summer, and as the rain in the Harvest are not meet, so is honor unseemly for a fool.
GW
Like snow in summertime and rain at harvest time, so honor is not right for a fool.
GNT
Praise for a fool is out of place, like snow in summer or rain at harvest time.
HCSB
Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor is inappropriate for a fool.
ICB
It shouldn’t snow in summer or rain at harvest. Neither should a foolish person ever be honored.
ISV
Like snowfall in summer or rain at harvest time, so honor is inappropriate for a fool.
JUB
¶ As snow in summer and as rain in harvest, so honour is not suited for a fool.
KJV
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
AKJV
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
LSB
Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest, So glory is not fitting for a fool.
LEB
Like snow in the summer and like rain at the harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
TLB
Honor doesn’t go with fools any more than snow with summertime or rain with harvesttime!
MSG
We no more give honors to fools than pray for snow in summer or rain during harvest.
MEV
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool.
NOG
Like snow in summertime and rain at harvest time, so honor is not right for a fool.
NABRE
Like snow in summer, like rain in harvest, honor for a fool is out of place.
NASB
Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest, So honor is not fitting for a fool.
NASB1995
Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest, So honor is not fitting for a fool.
NCB
Like snow in the summer or rain during the harvest, honor does not befit a fool.
NCV
It shouldn’t snow in summer or rain at harvest. Neither should a foolish person ever be honored.
NET
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
NIRV
It isn’t proper to honor a foolish person. That’s like having snow in summer or rain at harvest time.
NIV
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, honor is not fitting for a fool.
NIVUK
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, honour is not fitting for a fool.
NKJV
As snow in summer and rain in harvest, So honor is not fitting for a fool.
NLV
Like snow in summer and like rain at gathering time, so honor is not right for a fool.
NLT
Honor is no more associated with fools than snow with summer or rain with harvest.
NRSVA
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honour is not fitting for a fool.
NRSVACE
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honour is not fitting for a fool.
NRSVCE
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
NRSVUE
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
OJB
As sheleg (snow) in kayitz (summer), and as matar (rain) at katzir (harvest), so kavod is not fitting for a kesil (fool).
RGT
As snow in summer and as rain at harvest, so is honor unseemly for a fool.
RSV
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
RSVCE
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
TLV
Like snow in summer or rain at harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
VOICE
Like snow in the summer and rain in the time of harvest, so honor is never fitting for a fool.
WEB
Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
WYC
As snow in summer, and rain in harvest; so glory is unseemly to a fool. (Like snow in summer, and rain at harvest; so glory is unbecoming to a fool.)
YLT
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honour [is] not comely for a fool.
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