Proverbs 27:3

New English Translation

A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but vexation by a fool is more burdensome than the two of them.

Cross References

Genesis 49:7

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

Job 5:2

For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

Proverbs 12:16

A fool’s annoyance is known at once, but the prudent overlooks an insult.

Proverbs 17:12

It is better for a person to meet a mother bear being robbed of her cubs, than to encounter a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 27:2

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

Daniel 3:19

Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and his disposition changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders to heat the furnace seven times hotter than it was normally heated.

Numbers 22:27

When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, she crouched down under Balaam. Then Balaam was angry, and he beat his donkey with a staff.

1 John 3:12

not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.