Parallel Verses
NET Bible
A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but vexation by a fool is more burdensome than the two of them.
New American Standard Bible
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
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 King James verseion
A stone is heavy, and sand is heavy; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 27:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Life
2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips. 3 A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but vexation by a fool is more burdensome than the two of them. 4 Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
Cross References
Proverbs 17:12
It is better for a person to meet a mother bear being robbed of her cubs, than to encounter a fool in his folly.
Genesis 34:25-26
In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.
Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their fury, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel!
1 Samuel 22:18-19
Then the king said to Doeg, "You turn and strike down the priests!" So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests. He killed on that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
Esther 3:5-6
When Haman saw that Mordecai was not bowing or paying homage to him, he was filled with rage.
Daniel 3:19
Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and his disposition changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders to heat the furnace seven times hotter than it was normally heated.
1 John 3:12
not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother's were righteous.