Friday!

Proverbs!

Like snow in summer and rain at harvest,

honor is inappropriate for a fool.

Proverbs 26:1 CSB

The Bible is full of metaphors and there's a couple of great ones here. Word pictures that tell us something is wrong here. 

Snow in summer - what is going on?

Rain at harvest - that could be a terrible outcome for your crops. 

And Proverbs often compares the fool with the wise. 

There is an interesting word here and it's translated "honor". 

The word is "kabowd" and it means glorious. 

Abundance, riches, honor, splendor, reverence, glory.

And when we put those together, it points in one direction and that's to God. So it seems that this proverb is about two categories, us and God, and when we take the glory and honour that belongs to God, it's like snow in summer, it just doesn't fit, or it's potentially disastrous, like rain at harvest. 

Honoring people is good, but not when that honor belongs to our God. 

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