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Proverbs 27:3
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 unreasonable and excessive, a burden to himself and others.
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 unreasonable and excessive, a burden to himself and others.
Compare Ecclus. 22:15; a like comparison between the heaviest material burdens and the more intolerable load of unreasoning passion....
V. INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO SOLOMON In the three Chapter s which follow 27-29 we find the change we have noticed before. These proverbs are addressed to a person and the phrases “My son” and the persona...
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 the fool that is a bore, not his anger. Proverbs 27:4 a...
FOOL'S. Hebrew. _'evil._ See note on Proverbs 1:7. THEM. Should be "they"....
Comp. Sir 22:15....
CHAPTER 27 TEXT Proverbs 27:1-9 1. Boast not thyself of tomorrow; For thou knowest now what a day may bring forth. 2. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not th...
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 THEM BOTH - both to himself and to others. Wrath is ma...
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 from telling a friend his faults. An enemy will be 'profus...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 27 V1 Do not become proud about your plans for tomorrow. You do not know what will happen tomorrow....
The anger of the fool (evil person) causes great strain. But a good person should not be angry. See Ephesians 4:31. Instead, a good person should forgive other people’s errors. (Ephesians 4:32)...
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 person. who has never learned to control himself, but...
כֹּֽבֶד ־אֶ֭בֶן וְ נֵ֣טֶל הַ חֹ֑ול וְ
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 destruction are never satisfied; and the eyes of men ar...
“HEARTY COUNSEL” Proverbs 27:1-22 The keyword in this paragraph is _friends_, Proverbs 27:6; Proverbs 27:9-10; Proverbs 27:14; Proverbs 27:17; Proverbs 19:1-29. Friends, according to the original se...
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 Proverbs 27:14. There is nothing more calculated to...
_Both. He is insupportable to himself and to others, Ecclesiasticus xxii. 17._...
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 is heavier than them both. Wrath is cruel, and ange...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
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 tog...
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.] Himself cannot rule nor repress it, but that he dies o...
_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. “Fools and unskilful people,” says Melancthon, “are more...
HERE THE SUBJECT matter is completely changed. No longer is the outside opposition of the enemy found, but any dangers now considered are those arising from the state of our own hearts. This third sec...
HEAVY: _ Heb._ heaviness...
HEAVIER; more grievous and intolerable, as being without cause, without measure, and without end....
Proverbs 27:3 stone H68 heavy H3514 sand H2344 weighty H5192 fools H191 wrath H3708 heavier H3515 both H8147...
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 what we mean to do when we come to any age, or what sh...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson.) Use the present time with diligence and wisdom and presume not upon tomorrow. We should speak of th...
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 person; as St. John, who says, “that disciple whom Jesus...
_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 stupidest things that a man can be guilty of. The pro...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 27:3 Both proverbs have the same pattern (two items mentioned for comparison’s sake, followed by a single item that is worse than both of them). Together, the proverbs sugges...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 27:4. Delitzsch reads this verse “_The madness of anger and the overflowing of wrath, and before jealousy who keeps his place?_” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 27:3_ WRATH A...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 27:1 These verses are grouped in pairs, each two being connected in subject. PROVERBS 27:1 BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TOMORROW. He boasts himself ...
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring foRuth (Proverbs 27:1). Very good. This is, of course, the idea is taken up in the New Testament book of James. He said, "Go t...
1 John 3:12; 1 Samuel 22:18; 1 Samuel 22:19; Daniel 3:19; Esther 3:5;...
MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE Proverbs 27:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God has given to each of us a life freighted with many privileges and with many opportunities. There is a little verse in the New Testament w...
Heavier — More grievous, being without cause, without measure, and without end....