Proverbs 27:3 - New Revised Standard Version

³ A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Stone is heavy and sand weighty, but a fool's [unreasoning] wrath is heavier and more intolerable than both of them.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool’s vexation is heavier than they both.

Common English Bible

³ A stone is heavy and sand weighs much, but the nuisance of fools is heavier than both.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ A stone is weighty, and sand is burdensome; but the wrath of the foolish is heavier than both.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.

Proverbs 27:3 Cross References

Genesis 49:7

Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

Job 5:2

Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

Proverbs 12:16

Fools show their anger at once, but the prudent ignore an insult.

Proverbs 17:12

Better to meet a she-bear robbed of its cubs than to confront a fool immersed in folly.

Proverbs 27:2

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth— a stranger, and not your own lips.

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Daniel 3:19

Then Nebuchadnezzar was so filled with rage against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that his face was distorted. He ordered the furnace heated up seven times more than was customary,

Numbers 22:27

When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, it lay down under Balaam; and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.

1 John 3:12

We must not be like Cain who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.