“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, honor to the fool is unseemly—a statement that honoring the fool is contrary to nature and order, establishing that such honor is fundamentally wrong. The natural incongruities (snow in summer, rain in harvest) parallel the social incongruity. The theological significance involves the principle of proper order and fitting distinctions.
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