Proverbs - Whom Deserves Honor?

Proverbs 26:8

As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.

Giving honor to someone who is doing something foolish according to God’s standards is like binding a stone in a sling.  You are setting up a possible occasion of wounding and offense.  We don’t want to give ammunition to the enemy to hurl unnecessary pain and affliction upon other people.  One way to avoid this is by not giving honor to a fool.  We don’t praise foolish decisions, we don’t look up to a foolish woman and we certainly don’t espouse foolish responses as ‘clever’ or ‘quick’.  We must understand foolishness and regard it as something we don’t want to be nor regard in any sort of honorable way.  We must grow in our discretion and recognize foolishness by the guidelines of the Word of God in order to avoid this great mistake.