Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
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Gill's Exposition
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 rolled away till all the shepherds were gathered…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
Compare Ecclus. 22:15; a like comparison between the heaviest material burdens and the more intolerable load of unreasoning passion.
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…
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