Proverbs 27:3

Proverbs chapter 27 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.2Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.

v.3This passage

v.4Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Daniel 3:19

    Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.

  • 1 Samuel 22:18

    And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.

  • Genesis 49:7

    Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel.

  • Proverbs 17:12

    Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.

  • Genesis 34:25

    And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males.

  • 1 John 3:12

    not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.