Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heauie, and the sand weightie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 man prayse thee, and not thine owne mouth: a stranger, and not thine owne lips.
4Anger is cruell, and wrath is raging: but who can stand before enuie?
Cross References
Genesis 49:7Cursed be their wrath, for it was fierce, and their rage, for it was cruell: I will deuide them in Iaakob, and scatter them in Israel.
1 Samuel 22:18Then the King sayde to Doeg, Turne thou and fall vpon the Priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and ran vpon the Priestes, and slewe that same daye foure score and fiue persons that did weare a linen Ephod.
Proverbs 17:12It is better for a man to meete a beare robbed of her whelpes, then a foole in his follie.
1 John 3:12Not as Cain which was of that wicked one, and slewe his brother: and wherefore slewe he him? because his owne workes were euill, and his brothers good.
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 →