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 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 tyrannical ruler practices extortion, but one who hates ill- gotten gain will enjoy a long reign. (niv)

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, the sort of error that arises from a ruler:Fools are put in many high positions, while the rich occupy the low ones.I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves. (niv)

Like tying a stone in a sling is the giving of honor to a fool. (niv)

who freely strut about when what is vile is honored by the human race. (niv)

It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury— how much worse for a slave to rule over princes! (niv)

who despises a vile person but honors those who fear the Lord; who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and does not change their mind; (niv)

Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool— how much worse lying lips to a ruler! (niv)

Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero? Why do you boast all day long, you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God? (niv)

When Jotham was told about this, he climbed up on the top of Mount Gerizim and shouted to them,“ Listen to me, citizens of Shechem, so that God may listen to you. (niv)

Is it not wheat harvest now? I will call on the Lord to send thunder and rain. And you will realize what an evil thing you did in the eyes of the Lord when you asked for a king.”Then Samuel called on the Lord, and that same day the Lord sent thunder and rain. So all the people stood in awe of the Lord and of Samuel. (niv)

Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers.God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness. The curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal came on them. (niv)

So Hathak went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king’s gate. (niv)

Hathak went back and reported to Esther what Mordecai had said. (niv)

After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles.All the royal officials at the king’s gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor.Then the royal officials at the king’s gate asked Mordecai,“ Why do you disobey the king’s command?”Day after day they spoke to him but he refused to comply. Therefore they told Haman about it to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, for he had told them he was a Jew.When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged.Yet having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the pur( that is, the lot) was cast in the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.Then Haman said to King Xerxes,“ There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate. Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king’s laws; it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents of silver to the king’s administrators for the royal treasury.”So the king took his signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.“ Keep the money,” the king said to Haman,“ and do with the people as you please.”Then on the thirteenth day of the first month the royal secretaries were summoned. They wrote out in the script of each province and in the language of each people all Haman’s orders to the king’s satraps, the governors of the various provinces and the nobles of the various peoples. These were written in the name of King Xerxes himself and sealed with his own ring.Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews— young and old, women and children— on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so they would be ready for that day.The couriers went out, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was bewildered. (niv)

But if you have not, let fire come out from Abimelek and consume you, the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo, and let fire come out from you, the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo, and consume Abimelek!” (niv)

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools! (niv)