Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

New American Standard Bible

A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,
But the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

A stone is heavy and sand, a burden,
but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.

International Standard Version

Rocks are heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation outweighs them both.

A Conservative Version

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty, but a fool's vexation is heavier than both.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


Stone is heavy and the sand weighty,
But a fool’s [unreasonable] wrath is heavier and more burdensome than both of them.

Bible in Basic English

A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

A stone is heavy and sand a burden, and the wrath of the foolish one heavy more than they two.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Heavy [is] a stone and weighty [is] sand, but [the] provocation of a fool [is] heavier than both of them.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but vexation by a fool is more burdensome than the two of them.

New Heart English Bible

A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

The Emphasized Bible

Heavy is a stone, and weighty is sand, - but, the vexation of a fool, is heavier than both.

Webster

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

World English Bible

A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

Youngs Literal Translation

A stone is heavy, and the sand is heavy, And the anger of a fool Is heavier than they both.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
is heavy
כּבד 
Kobed 
Usage: 4

and the sand
חול 
Chowl 
Usage: 23

נטל 
Netel 
Usage: 1

but a fool's
אויל 
'eviyl 
Usage: 26

כּעשׂ כּעס 
Ka`ac 
Usage: 25

is heavier
כּבד 
Kabed 
Usage: 40

References

Hastings

Context Readings

All About Life

2 Let another man praise you, and not your mouth; a stranger, and not your lips. 3 A stone is heavy, and sand is heavy; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before envy?

Cross References

Proverbs 17:12

Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

Genesis 34:25-26

And it happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took each his sword and came upon the city boldly, and killed all the males.

Genesis 49:7

Let their anger be cursed, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

1 Samuel 22:18-19

And the king said to Doeg, You turn and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned and fell on the priests. And on that day he killed eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod.

Esther 3:5-6

And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow nor worship him, then Haman was full of wrath.

Daniel 3:19

Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

1 John 3:12

not as Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. And for what did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's things were righteous.

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