A stone is heavy and sand is weighty,
But a fool’s wrath is heavier than both of them.

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Heavy is a stone and weighty is sand,
    but the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.

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22 (A)Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

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22 If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle along with[a] the crushed grain,
    it will not drive folly from upon him.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:22 Or “in the midst of”