Proverbs 27:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Stone is heavy, and sand a burden, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

Cross References

Genesis 49:7

Cursed be their fury so fierce, and their rage so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob, disperse them throughout Israel.

Job 5:2

Surely impatience kills the fool and indignation slays the simpleton.

Proverbs 12:16

Fools immediately show their anger, but the shrewd conceal contempt.

Proverbs 17:12

Face a bear robbed of her cubs, but never fools in their folly!

Proverbs 27:2

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

Proverbs 27:4

Anger is cruel, and wrath overwhelming, but before jealousy who can stand?

Daniel 3:19

Nebuchadnezzar’s face became livid with utter rage against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace to be heated seven times more than usual

Numbers 22:27

When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord there, she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger flared up and he beat the donkey with his stick.

1 John 3:12

unlike Cain who belonged to the evil one and slaughtered his brother. Why did he slaughter him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.