Proverbs 27:3
WEB
A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
BSB
A stone is heavy and sand is a burden, but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.
KJV
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H3514
n-m — weight, multitude, vehemence
Derivation: from 3513;
weight, multitude, vehemence
KJV: grievousness, heavy, great number.
n.[m.] — weight
כֹּ֫בֶד n.[m.]
1. heaviness, weight of a stone
2. mass, abundance, of corpses
3. vehemence, of war
H68
n-f — stone
Derivation: from the root of 1129 through the meaning to build;
a stone
KJV: carbuncle, mason, plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-) stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
n.f — stone
אֶ֫בֶן 274 n.f. stone
1. in natural state
2. stone, as material
3. precious stone, gen. with modifying word
4. stone containing metal, = ore
5. a weight, as orig. stone
6. plummet
7. objects like stone
8. in sim. (mostly poet.) of sinking in water
9. In topogr. terms
H5192
n-m — burden
Derivation: ; from 5190;
a burden
KJV: weighty.
H2344
n-m — sand
Derivation: from 2342;
sand (as round or whirling particles)
KJV: sand.
n.m — sand
חוֹל n.m. sand (perh. as turning or whirling)
H3708
n-m — vexation
Derivation: or (in Job) כַּעַשׂ; from 3707;
vexation
KJV: anger, angry, grief, indignation, provocation, provoking, × sore, sorrow, spite, wrath.
n.m — vexation
כַּ֫עַס n.m. vexation, anger
n.m — vexation
כַּ֫עַשׂ n.m.
1. vexation, grief
2. vexation, anger
H191
a-m — silly
Derivation: from an unused root (meaning to be perverse);
(figuratively) silly
KJV: fool(-ish) (man).
adj — foolish
אֱוִיל 26 adj. foolish
H3515
a — heavy, numerous, severe, difficult, stupid
Derivation: from 3513;
heavy; figuratively in a good sense (numerous) or in a bad sense (severe, difficult, stupid)
KJV: (so) great, grievous, hard(-ened), (too) heavy(-ier), laden, much, slow, sore, thick.
adj — heavy
כָּבֵד adj. heavy
H8147
n — two, twofold
Derivation: dual of 8145; feminine שְׁתַּיִם;
two; also (as ordinal) twofold
KJV: both, couple, double, second, twain, twelfth, twelve, twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
n.m — two
שְׁנַ֫יִם, שְׁתַּיִם 768 n.m. et f. du. two
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Verses 3–4
Proverbs 27:3–4
These two verses show the intolerable mischief, 1. Of ungoverned passion. The wrath of a fool, who when he is provoked cares not what he says and does, is more grievous than a great stone or a load of sand. It lies heavily upon himself. Those who have no command of their passions do themselves even sink under the load of them. The wrath of a fool lies heavily upon those he is enraged at, to whom, in his fury, he will be in danger of doing some mischief. It is therefore our wisdom not to give provocation to a fool, but, if he be in a passion, to get out of his way. 2. Of rooted malice, which is as much worse than the former as coals of juniper are worse than a fire of thorns. Wrath (it is true) is cruel, and does many a barbarous thing, and anger is outrageous; but a secret enmity at the person of another, an envy at his prosperity, and a desire of revenge for some injury or affront, are much more mischievous. One may avoid a sudden heat, as David escaped Saul's javelin, but when it grows, as Saul's did, to a settled envy, there is no standing before it; it will pursue; it will overtake. He that grieves at the good of another will be still contriving to do him hurt, and will keep his anger for ever.