New Revised Standard Version
A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

Contemporary English Version
Stones and sand are heavy, but trouble caused by a fool is a much heavier load.

New American Bible
Stone is heavy, and sand a burden, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.

A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.

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Proverbs 17:12 It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.

Genesis 34:25,26 And behold the third day, when the pain of the wound was greatest: two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dina, taking their swords, entered boldly into the city and slew all the men. . . .

Genesis 49:7 Cursed be their fury, because it was stubborn: and their wrath, because it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and will scatter them in Israel.

1 Samuel 22:18,19 And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg, the Edomite, turned, and fell upon the priests, and slew in that day eighty-five men that wore the linen ephod. . . .

Esther 5:6 And the king said to her, after he had drunk wine plentifully: What dost thou desire should be given thee? and for what thing askest thou? although thou shouldst ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.

Daniel 3:19 Then was Nabuchodonosor filled with fury: and the countenance of his face was changed against Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and he commanded that the furnace should be heated seven times more than it had been accustomed to be heated.

1 John 3:12 Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just.