A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool's vexation is heavier than they both.
A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both.
A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than them both.
Compare Ecclus. 22:15; a like comparison between the heaviest material burdens and the more intolerable load of unreasoning passion.
27:3 Heavier - More grievous, being without cause, without measure, and without end.