Proverbs 27:3

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; Proverbs 17:12

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 27:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Ecclus. 22:15; a like comparison between the heaviest material burdens and the more intolerable load of unreasoning passion.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

fool's. Hebrew. 'evil. See note on Proverbs 1:7 . them. Should be "they".
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Hearty Counsel” Proverbs 27:1-22 The keyword in this paragraph is friends , Proverbs 27:6 ; Proverbs 27:9-10 ; Proverbs 27:14 ; Proverbs...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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. “...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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;...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Heavier; more grievous and intolerable, as being without cause, without measure, and without end.
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 27:4 . Delitzsch reads this verse “ The madness of anger and the overflowing of wrath, and before jealousy who keeps hi...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 27:1-20 These verses are grouped in pairs, each two being connected in subject. Proverbs 27:1 Boast not thyself...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Exaltation of Self Leads to Folly
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

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...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 27:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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