Proverbs 26:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

In Palestine there is commonly hardly any rain from the early showers of spring to October. Hence, “rain in harvest” became sometimes (see the marginal reference) a supernatural sign, sometimes, as here, a proverb for whatever was strange and incongruous.

Proverbs 26:1

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