Proverbs 27:3 - New International Version (Anglicised)

³ Stone is heavy and sand a burden, 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.

Proverbs 27:3 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 49:7

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

Job 5:2

Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

Proverbs 12:16

Fools show their annoyance at once, but the prudent overlook an insult.

Proverbs 17:12

Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool bent on folly.

Proverbs 27:2

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

Proverbs 27:4

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

Daniel 3:19

Then Nebuchadnezzar was furious with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and his attitude towards them changed. He ordered the furnace to be heated seven times hotter than usual

Numbers 22:27

When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, it lay down under Balaam, and he was angry and beat it with his staff.

1 John 3:12

Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.