“Just as snow in summer, etc. This verse warns that the teaching honor should not be conferred on the unlearned. Snow in summer and rain in harvest represent the persecutions of the unbelievers at the time of the preaching of the gospel, which, when they perhaps more heavily pursue, impede the warmth of love in many an…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Proverbs
Original
1As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
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In context
— Proverbs 26:1 —
2As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.