Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
Proverbs 27:3 in other translations
| BSB | A stone is heavy and sand is a burden, but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both. |
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| WEB | A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both. |
| ASV | A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool’s vexation is heavier than they both. |
| YLT | A stone is heavy, and the sand is heavy, And the anger of a fool Is heavier than they both. |
| DARBY | A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than them both. |
| BBE | A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these. |
| Webster | A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both. |
What does Proverbs 27:3 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 27:3-4
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Proverbs 27:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 27:3
- Daniel 3:19
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
- 1 John 3:12
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
- Proverbs 17:12
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
- Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
- 1 Samuel 22:18-19
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
- Genesis 34:25-26
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males. And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.
- Esther 3:5-6
And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath. And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
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Context
- Proverbs 27:2
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
- Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
- Proverbs 27:4
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Proverbs 27:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Pesada es la piedra, y la arena pesa; mas la ira del necio es más pesada que ambas cosas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | La pierre est pesante et le sable est lourd; mais l’humeur d’un fou est plus pesante que tous les deux. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Schwer ist der Stein, und der Sand eine Last; aber der Unmut des Narren ist schwerer als beide. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Grave est saxum, et onerosa arena, sed ira stulti utroque gravior. |