Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
In Context
2Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips.
4Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?
Cross References
Genesis 49:7Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath because it was cruel: I Will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.
1 Samuel 22:18And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell upon the priests and slew in that day eighty-five men that wore the linen ephod.
Proverbs 17:12It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.
1 John 3:12Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:3
2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. Note, 1. We must do that which is commendable, for which even strangers may praise us. Our light must shine before men, and we must do good works that may be seen, though we must not do them on purpose that they may be seen. Let our own works be such as will praise us, even in the gates, Phil. iv. 8 . 2. When we have done it we must not commend ourselves, for that is an evidence of pride, folly, and self-love, and a great… Read the whole commentary →