Proverbs 26:1

1. As snow in summer… as rain… harvest Both of which are, in Palestine, rare at the seasons named, and their occurrence then deemed calamitous, as being damaging to the crops. So is it, too, in some parts of California, which has a similar climate.

So honour (preferment) is not seemly for a fool Does not sit well on him, or fit him; a figure supposed to be taken from a misfitting or unbecoming garment. The ideas of grossness, stupidity, and wickedness are embraced in the Hebrew כסיל , ( kesil,) which we render fool. See on Proverbs 1:22. Compare 1 Samuel 12:17.