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- Verse 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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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…
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