As snow in summer and rain in harvest, So honor is not fitting for a fool.

夏天落雪，收割时下雨，都不相宜；愚昧人得尊荣也是如此。

愚昧人得尊荣不相宜，正如夏天落雪，收割时下雨。

愚昧人得尊荣不相宜，正如夏天落雪，收割时下雨。

愚人得尊荣本不合宜，如夏天降雪、收割时下雨。

夏天落雪，收割时下雨，都不合宜；照样，愚昧人获得尊荣，也不合宜。

就像夏天落雪，收割时下雨，愚昧人得尊荣也不合宜。

夏天落雪，收割時下雨，都不相宜；愚昧人得尊榮也是如此。

愚昧人得尊榮不相宜，正如夏天落雪，收割時下雨。

愚昧人得尊榮不相宜，正如夏天落雪，收割時下雨。

愚人得尊榮本不合宜，如夏天降雪、收割時下雨。

夏天落雪，收割時下雨，都不合宜；照樣，愚昧人獲得尊榮，也不合宜。

夏天落雪、收割時下雨、很不適合；愚頑人得尊榮、照樣不相宜。

就像夏天落雪，收割時下雨，愚昧人得尊榮也不合宜。

蠢者得榮非宜、如夏時雨雪、如穡時下雨、

夏時雨雪、秋時霪雨、愚人居尊位、俱非所宜。

夏時雨雪、穡時降雨、皆非所宜、愚者得榮亦若是、

Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, honor is not fitting for a fool.

It isn’t proper to honor a foolish person. That’s like having snow in summer or rain at harvest time.

Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

Honor is no more associated with fools than snow with summer or rain with harvest.

Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor is inappropriate for a fool.

Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest, So honor is not fitting for a fool.

As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honor is not seemly for a fool.

Like snow in summer and rain at harvest, honor is inappropriate for a fool.

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

Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

A ruler who lacks understanding is a great oppressor, But he who hates covetousness will prolong his days.

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, As an error proceeding from the ruler:Folly is set in great dignity, While the rich sit in a lowly place.I have seen servants on horses, While princes walk on the ground like servants.

Like one who binds a stone in a sling Is he who gives honor to a fool.

The wicked prowl on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

Luxury is not fitting for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule over princes.

In whose eyes a vile person is despised, But he honors those who fear the Lord; He who swears to his own hurt and does not change;

Excellent speech is not becoming to a fool, Much less lying lips to a prince.

Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually.

Now when they told Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted his voice and cried out. And he said to them:“ Listen to me, you men of Shechem, That God may listen to you!

Is today not the wheat harvest? I will call to the Lord, and He will send thunder and rain, that you may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking a king for yourselves.”So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father by killing his seventy brothers.And all the evil of the men of Shechem God returned on their own heads, and on them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square that was in front of the king’s gate.

So Hathach returned and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.And all the king’s servants who were within the king’s gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai would not bow or pay homage.Then the king’s servants who were within the king’s gate said to Mordecai,“ Why do you transgress the king’s command?”Now it happened, when they spoke to him daily and he would not listen to them, that they told it to Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s words would stand; for Mordecai had told them that he was a Jew.When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow or pay him homage, Haman was filled with wrath.But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him of the people of Mordecai. Instead, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus— the people of Mordecai.In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur( that is, the lot), before Haman to determine the day and the month, until it fell on the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus,“ There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from all other people’s, and they do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not fitting for the king to let them remain.If it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.And the king said to Haman,“ The money and the people are given to you, to do with them as seems good to you.”Then the king’s scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and a decree was written according to all that Haman commanded— to the king’s satraps, to the governors who were over each province, to the officials of all people, to every province according to its script, and to every people in their language. In the name of King Ahasuerus it was written, and sealed with the king’s signet ring.And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions.A copy of the document was to be issued as law in every province, being published for all people, that they should be ready for that day.The couriers went out, hastened by the king’s command; and the decree was proclaimed in Shushan the citadel. So the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was perplexed.

But if not, let fire come from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and Beth Millo; and let fire come from the men of Shechem and from Beth Millo and devour Abimelech!”

A whip for the horse, A bridle for the donkey, And a rod for the fool’s back.