John Gill's Exposition on Proverbs 27:3

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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 sometimes intolerable to himself; he sinks and dies under the weight of it, as Nabal did: “wrath killeth the foolish man”, (<180502>Job 5:2); and it is still more intolerable to others, as Nebuchadnezzar’s wrath and his fiery furnace were.

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