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Heavy is a stone and weighty is sand,
    but the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.
Cruel is wrath and overwhelming is anger,
    but who will stand before jealousy?

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A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty;
But a fool’s vexation is heavier than they both.
Wrath is cruel, and anger is [a]overwhelming;
But who is able to stand before jealousy?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:4 Hebrew a flood.