Proverbs 27:3

Coverdale Bible (1535)

The stone is heuy, and the sonde weightie: but a fooles wrath is heuyer then they both.

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  • Prov 17:12 : 12 It were better to come agaynst a she Bere robbed of hir whelpes, then agaynst a foole in his foolishnes.
  • Dan 3:19 : 19 Then was Nabuchodonosor full off indignacion, so that ye countenaunce of his face chaunged vpo Sidrac, Misac & Abdenago. Therfore he charched and commaunded, that the ouen shulde be made seuen tymes hoter, then it was wote to be:
  • 1 John 3:12 : 12 not as Cain, which was of the wicked, and slewe his brother. And wherfore slewe he him? euen because his awne workes were euell, and his brothers righteous.
  • Gen 34:25-26 : 25 And vpon the thirde daye (whan it was panefull to them) the two sonnes of Iacob Simeon and Leui Dinas brethren, toke euery man his swerde, and wente boldly in to the cite, and slew all the males, 26 and slew Hemor also and Sichem his sonne with the edge of the swerde, and toke their sister Dina out of Sichems house, and wente their waye.
  • Gen 49:7 : 7 Cursed be their wrath, because it is so fearce: and their indignacion, because it is so rigorous. I wil deuyde them in Iacob, and scater them in Israel
  • 1 Sam 22:18-19 : 18 Then saide ye kynge vnto Doeg: Turne the, and slaye the prestes. Doeg the Edomite turned him, and slewe the prestes, so that the same daye there dyed fyue and foure score men, which wayre ouerbody cotes of lynnen. 19 And Nob the cite of the prestes smote he with the edge of the swerde, both men and wemen, children and sucklynges, oxen and asses, and shepe.
  • Esth 3:5-6 : 5 And wha Aman sawe, that Mardocheus bowed not the knee vnto him, ner worshipped him, he was full of indignacion & despyte, 6 that he shulde laye hondes onely on Mardocheus: for they had shewed him ye people of Mardocheus, but he sought to destroye the people of Mardocheus, and all the people that were in the whole empyre of Ahasuerus.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 27:4
    77%

    4Wrath is a cruell thige, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: yee who is able to abyde envye?

  • Prov 26:3-10
    8 verses
    75%

    3Vnto the horse belongeth a whyppe, to the Asse a brydle, and a rodde to the fooles backe.

    4Geue not the foole an answere after his foolishnesse, lest thou become like vnto him:

    5but make ye foole an answere to his foolishnesse, lest he be wyse in his owne coceate.

    6He is lame of his fete, yee droncken is he in vanite, that comitteth eny thinge to a foole.

    7Like as it is an vnsemely thige to haue legges & yet to halte, eue so is a parable in ye fooles mouth.

    8He yt setteth a foole in hye dignite, yt is eue as yf a man dyd cast a precious stone vpo ye galous.

    9A parable in a fooles mouth, is like a thorne yt pricketh a droncken man in ye hande.

    10A man of experience discerneth all thinges well, but whoso hyreth a foole, hyreth soch one as wyl take no hede.

  • Eccl 7:9
    75%

    9Be not haistely angrie in yi mynde, for wrath resteth in the bosome of a foole.

  • Prov 29:11
    74%

    11A foole poureth out his sprete alltogether, but a wyse man kepeth it in till afterwarde.

  • Prov 19:3
    73%

    3Foolishnesse maketh a man to go out of his waye, & then is his herte vnpacient agaynst the LORDE.

  • Prov 17:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24Wy?dome shyneth in ye face of him yt hath vnderstondinge, but ye eyes of fooles wandre thorow out all lodes.

    25An vndiscrete sonne is a grefe vnto his father, and heuynesse vnto his mother yt bare him.

  • Prov 14:17
    73%

    17An vnpacient man handeleth foolishly, but he that is well aduysed, doth other wayes.

  • Job 5:2
    73%

    2As for the foolish man displeasure kylleth him, and anger slayeth ye ignoraunt.

  • Prov 14:29
    73%

    29Pacience is a token of wi?dome, but wrath and haistie displeasure is a token of foolishnesse.

  • Prov 27:2
    72%

    2Let another ma prayse the, & not thine owne mouth: yee other folkes lippes, and not thyne.

  • Prov 27:22
    72%

    22Though thou shuldest bray a foole wt a pestell in a morter like otemeell, yet wil not his foolishnesse go from him.

  • Prov 12:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15Loke what a foole taketh in honde, he thinketh it well done: but he that is wyse, wyl be couceled.

    16A foole vttereth his wrath in all the haist, but a discrete man forgeueth wronge.

  • Prov 14:3
    72%

    3In the mouth of the foolish is the boostinge of lordshipe, but ye lippes of ye wyse wilbe warre of soch.

  • Prov 29:22
    71%

    22An angrie man stereth vp strife, and he that beareth euell wyll in his mynde, doth moch euell.

  • Eccl 10:3
    71%

    3A dotinge foole thinketh, yt euery ma doth as foolishly as himself.

  • Prov 18:6
    71%

    6A fooles lippes are euer brawlinge, and his mouth prouoketh vnto batayll.

  • Prov 29:20
    71%

    20Yf thou seyst a man that is haistie to speake vnaduysed, thou mayest trust a foole more then him.

  • Prov 29:9
    71%

    9Yf a wyse man go to lawe with a foole (whether he deale with him frendly or roughly) he getteth no rest.

  • Prov 17:10
    71%

    10One reprofe only doth more good to him yt hath vnderstodinge, then an C. stripes vnto a foole.

  • Eccl 7:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5It is better to geue eare to the chastenynge of a wyse man, then to heare the songe of fooles.

    6For the laughinge of fooles is like ye crackynge of thornes vnder a pott. And yt is but a vayne thinge.

  • Prov 14:24
    71%

    24Riches are an ornament vnto the wyse, but the ignoraunce of fooles is very foolishnesse.

  • Prov 17:16
    70%

    16What helpeth it to geue a foole money in his hode, where as he hath no mynde to bye wy?dome?

  • Prov 26:27
    70%

    27Who so dyggeth vp a pytt, shal fal therin: and he yt weltreth a stone, shal stomble vpon it hymselfe.

  • Prov 17:12
    70%

    12It were better to come agaynst a she Bere robbed of hir whelpes, then agaynst a foole in his foolishnes.

  • Prov 11:29
    70%

    29Who so maketh disquyetnesse in his owne house, he shal haue wynde for his heretage, and the foole shal be seruaunt to the wyse.

  • Prov 14:33
    70%

    33Wy?dome resteth in the herte of him that hath vnderstondinge, and he wyll teach them that are vnlerned.

  • Prov 19:10
    70%

    10Delicate ease becometh not a foole, moch more vnsemely is it, a bonde man to haue ye rule of prynces.

  • Prov 10:23
    70%

    23A foole doth wickedly & maketh but a sporte of it: neuertheles it is wysdome for a man to bewarre of soch.

  • Eccl 10:14
    70%

    14A foole is so full of wordes, that a man can not tell what ende he wyll make: who wyl then warne him to make a conclucion?

  • Prov 17:21
    70%

    21An vnwyse body bryngeth himselfe in to sorowe, and ye father of a foole can haue no ioye.

  • Prov 23:9
    70%

    9Tel nothinge in to ye eares of a foole, for he wyl despyse the wy?dome of thy wordes.

  • Prov 19:13
    69%

    13An vndiscrete sonne is ye heuynes of his father, & a braulynge wife is like the topp of an house, where thorow it is euer droppynge.

  • Job 6:3
    69%

    3for then shulde it be heuyer, then the sonde of the see. This is the cause, that my wordes are so soroufull.

  • Eccl 9:17
    69%

    17A wise mans councell that is folowed in sylence, is farre aboue the crienge of a captaine amoge fooles.

  • Prov 20:3
    69%

    3It is a mans honoure to kepe himself from strife, but they yt haue pleasure in braulinge, are fooles eueryone.

  • Eccl 4:6
    69%

    6One handfull (saieth he) is better wt rest, the both ye handes full with labor and trauayle.

  • Prov 10:18
    69%

    18Dissemblynge lippes kepe hatred secretly, and he that speaketh eny slaunder, is a foole.

  • Prov 18:2
    69%

    2A foole hath no delyte in vnderstodinge, but only in those thinges wherin his herte reioyseth.