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Proverbs 27:3
Proverbs 27:3 is verse 3 of Proverbs chapter 27, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
A stone is heavy and sand is a burden, but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.
King James Version
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
World English Bible
A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
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Proverbs 27:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth— a stranger, and not your own lips.
3 A stone is heavy and sand is a burden, but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.
4 Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?
5 Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 17:12It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.
Genesis 34:25Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
Genesis 34:26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
Genesis 49:7Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
1 Samuel 22:18So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
1 Samuel 22:19He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.
Esther 3:5When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or pay him homage, he was filled with rage.
Esther 3:6And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
Daniel 3:19At this, Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders to heat the furnace seven times hotter than usual,
1 John 3:12Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.