KJV ORIGINAL
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a foolish person's anger is heavier than both of them combined.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse is saying that an angry fool's rage causes more trouble and burden than even the heaviest physical weights.
📚 Historical Context
This proverb comes from the wisdom literature of ancient Israel, likely written during Solomon's reign or compiled later. In that agricultural society, people regularly dealt with heavy stones (used in construction and farming) and sand (moved for building projects), so everyone understood these as examples of truly heavy burdens. The comparison would have been immediately clear to people who moved these materials by hand.
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