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Selected Verse: Proverbs 27:3 - King James

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Pr 27:3 King James A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
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.
 
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3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.