fool's. Hebrew. 'evil. See note on Proverbs 1:7.
them. Should be "they".
Compare Ecclus. 22:15; a like comparison between the heaviest material burdens and the more intolerable load of unreasoning passion.
A collection of aphorisms on various subjects. Proverbs 27:3 . cf. Sir_22:14 f. The comparison suggests that vexation is out of place. It is t...
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 ... the sand ... a fool's wrath is heavier than...
Sundry Observations. Agriculture 4. Envy] a husband's jealousy is meant ( Song of Solomon 8:6 ). 5, 6. Men 'hide' (RV) love when they refrain f...
But a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both — i.e., harder to bear. (Comp. Sir. 12:15.) The “fool” here ( evil ) is the headstrong, self-willed...
CHAPTER 28 LIVING DAY BY DAY "Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day will bring forth."- Proverbs 27:1 "The grave and...
“Hearty Counsel” Proverbs 27:1-22 The keyword in this paragraph is friends , Proverbs 27:6 ; Proverbs 27:9-10 ; Proverbs 27:14 ; Proverbs...
Verse Proverbs 27:5 . This proverb takes for granted the need for rebuke, and by 'love that is hidden" is meant a love which fails to rebuke. Verse...
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath...
A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty ,.... As was the stone which was at the well's mouth, where Laban's flocks were watered, which could not be...
A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than them both. Ver. 3. But a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.] Hi...
A stone is heavy, &c., but a fool's wrath is heavier More grievous and intolerable, as being without cause, without measure, and without end. “...
HERE THE SUBJECT matter is completely changed. No longer is the outside opposition of the enemy found, but any dangers now considered are those ari...
3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous;...
Heavier; more grievous and intolerable, as being without cause, without measure, and without end.
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 27:4 . Delitzsch reads this verse “ The madness of anger and the overflowing of wrath, and before jealousy who keeps hi...
Proverbs 27:1 . Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Let us never boast of future days and years, or...
Proverbs 27:2 . Let another man praise thee. A man is sometimes compelled to speak of himself. But modesty often prefers speaking in the third per...
Sand weighty. The weight of sand By a fool this book means, not so much intellectual feebleness as moral and religious obliquity, which are the...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 27:1-20 These verses are grouped in pairs, each two being connected in subject. Proverbs 27:1 Boast not thyself...
Exaltation of Self Leads to Folly
A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, literally, "weight of stone and heaviness of sand"; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both, both unrea...
1 John 3:12 ; 1 Samuel 22:18 ; 1 Samuel 22:19 ; Daniel 3:19 ; Esther 3:5 ; Esther 3:6 ; Genesis 34:25 ; Genesis 34:26 ; Genesis 49:7 ; Prov...
Making the Most of Life Proverbs 27:1-27 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God has given to each of us a life freighted with many privileges and with many op...
Heavier — More grievous, being without cause, without measure, and without end.
3 A stone is heavy,a and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.