Proverbs 27:3

“A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty, etc.] 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 together, (<012902>Genesis 29:2,3,8); and like the burdensome stone Jerusalem is compared to (<381203>Zechariah 12:3); and as that at the sepulchre of Christ, rolled away by the angel, (<402802>Matthew 28:2). And sand is a very ponderous thing; difficult to be carried, as the Septuagint render it, as a bag of it is; and to which heavy afflictions are sometimes compared, (<180602>Job 6:2,3); but a fool’s wrath [is] heavier than them both; it cannot be removed, it rests in his bosom; it is…”

“heavy--The literal sense of "heavy," applied to material subjects, illustrates its figurative, "grievous," applied to moral. a fool's wrath--is unreasonable and excessive.”

“Compare Ecclus. 22:15; a like comparison between the heaviest material burdens and the more intolerable load of unreasoning passion. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Heavier - More grievous, being without cause, without measure, and without end. Proverbs 27:5”

“27:3 Fools cause heavy . . . resentment by their foolish words and actions.”

“heavy: Heb. heaviness but: Pro 17:12; Gen 34:25, Gen 34:26, Gen 49:7; Sa1 22:18, Sa1 22:19; Est 3:5, Est 3:6; Dan 3:19; Jo1 3:12 Proverbs 27:4”

“The second pair of proverbs designates two kinds of violent passion as unbearable: 3 The heaviness of a stone, the weight of sand - A fool's wrath is heavier than both. We do not translate: Gravis est petra et onerosa arena, so that the substantives stand for strengthening the idea, instead of the corresponding adjective (Fleischer, as the lxx, Jerome, Syr., Targum); the two pairs of words stand, as 4a, in genit. relation (cf. on the contrary, Pro 31:30), and it is as if the poet said: represent to thyself the heaviness of a stone and the weight of sand, and thou shalt find that the wrath of a fool compared thereto is still heavier, viz., for him who has to bear it; thus heavier, not for the…”