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Proverbs 27:3

Stone is heavy and the sand weighty, But a fool's [unreasonable] wrath is heavier and more burdensome than both of them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anger;   The Topic Concordance - Foolishness;   Wrath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Glory;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fool;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Grief;   Heavy;   Sand;   Stone;   Weight;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Folly and Fool;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier.
Update Bible Version
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool's vexation is heavier than both of them.
New Century Version
Stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a complaining fool is worse than either.
New English Translation
A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but vexation by a fool is more burdensome than the two of them.
Webster's Bible Translation
A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than both.
World English Bible
A stone is heavy, And sand is a burden; But a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
English Standard Version
A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A stoon is heuy, and grauel is chariouse; but the ire of a fool is heuyere than euer eithir.
English Revised Version
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than them both.
Berean Standard Bible
A stone is heavy and sand is a burden, but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.
Contemporary English Version
Stones and sand are heavy, but trouble caused by a fool is a much heavier load.
American Standard Version
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool's vexation is heavier than they both.
Bible in Basic English
A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.
Complete Jewish Bible
Stone is heavy and sand a dead weight, but a fool's provocation outweighs them both.
Darby Translation
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than them both.
Easy-to-Read Version
A stone is heavy, and sand is hard to carry, but the irritation caused by a fool is much harder to bear.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than they both.
King James Version (1611)
A stone is heauie, and the sand weightie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.
New Life Bible
A stone is heavy, and sand is heavy, but to be made angry by a fool weighs more than both of them.
New Revised Standard
A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A stone is heauie, and the sand weightie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.
George Lamsa Translation
A stone is heavy and sand is weighty; but a fools wrath is heavier than both.
Good News Translation
The weight of stone and sand is nothing compared to the trouble that stupidity can cause.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Heavy is a stone, and weighty is sand, - but, the vexation of a fool, is heavier than both.
Douay-Rheims Bible
A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.
Revised Standard Version
A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The stone is heauie, and the sande wayghtie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Heaven is high, and earth is deep, and a king’s heart is unsearchable.
Christian Standard Bible®
A stone is heavy and sand, a burden,but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.
Hebrew Names Version
A stone is heavy, And sand is a burden; But a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
King James Version
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Lexham English Bible
Heavy is a stone and weighty is sand, but the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.
Literal Translation
A stone is heavy, and sand a burden, but a fool's anger is heavier than both.
Young's Literal Translation
A stone [is] heavy, and the sand [is] heavy, And the anger of a fool Is heavier than they both.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The stone is heuy, and the sonde weightie: but a fooles wrath is heuyer then they both.
THE MESSAGE
Carrying a log across your shoulders while you're hefting a boulder with your arms Is nothing compared to the burden of putting up with a fool.
New American Standard Bible
A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, But the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.
New King James Version
A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, But a fool's wrath is heavier than both of them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, But the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.
Legacy Standard Bible
A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,But the provocation of an ignorant fool is heavier than both of them.

Contextual Overview

3Stone is heavy and the sand weighty, But a fool's [unreasonable] wrath is heavier and more burdensome than both of them.4Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood, But who is able to endure and stand before [the sin of] jealousy?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

heavy: Heb. heaviness

but: Proverbs 17:12, Genesis 34:25, Genesis 34:26, Genesis 49:7, 1 Samuel 22:18, 1 Samuel 22:19, Esther 3:5, Esther 3:6, Daniel 3:19, 1 John 3:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:9 - pressed Numbers 22:27 - and Balaam's anger Judges 12:1 - we will burn 1 Samuel 19:15 - Bring him 1 Samuel 20:30 - Saul's Job 6:3 - heavier Proverbs 18:6 - fool's Daniel 2:12 - General Daniel 3:13 - in his Matthew 2:16 - was exceeding Mark 6:24 - The head

Cross-References

Genesis 10:9
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."
1 Corinthians 6:12
Everything is permissible for me, but not all things are beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be enslaved by anything [and brought under its power, allowing it to control me].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty,.... As was the stone which was at the well's mouth, where Laban's flocks were watered, which could not be rolled away till all the shepherds were gathered together,

Genesis 29:2; and like the burdensome stone Jerusalem is compared to

Zechariah 12:3; and as that at the sepulchre of Christ, rolled away by the angel, Matthew 28:2. And sand is a very ponderous thing; difficult to be carried, as the Septuagint render it, as a bag of it is; and to which heavy afflictions are sometimes compared, Job 6:2;

but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than them both; it cannot be removed, it rests in his bosom; it is sometimes intolerable to himself; he sinks and dies under the weight of it, as Nabal did: "wrath killeth the foolish man", Job 5:2; and it is still more intolerable to others, as Nebuchadnezzar's wrath and his fiery furnace were.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Ecclus. 22:15; a like comparison between the heaviest material burdens and the more intolerable load of unreasoning passion.


 
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