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Proverbs 26:1

Proverbs 26:1
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

In Palestine there is commonly hardly any rain from the early showers of spring to October. Hence, “rain in harvest” became sometimes (see the marginal reference) a supernatural sign, sometimes, as…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

rain in harvest "For six months in the year no rain falls [in Palestine], and the harvests are gathered in without any of the anxiety with which we are so familiar lest the work be interrupted by…