Ecclesiastes 27:3

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Grave est saxum, et onerosa arena,
sed ira stulti utroque gravior.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Si consistant adversum me castra, non timebit cor meum. Si exsurgat adversum me prælium, in hoc ego sperabo.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Grave est saxum et onerosa arena, sed ira stulti utroque gravior.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

heavy: Heb. heaviness

but: Proverbs 17:12, Genesis 34:25, Genesis 34:26, Genesis 49:7, 1 Samuel 22:18, 1 Samuel 22:19, Esther 3:5, Esther 3:6, Daniel 3:19, 1 John 3:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:9 - pressed Numbers 22:27 - and Balaam's anger Judges 12:1 - we will burn 1 Samuel 19:15 - Bring him 1 Samuel 20:30 - Saul's Job 6:3 - heavier Proverbs 18:6 - fool's Daniel 2:12 - General Daniel 3:13 - in his Matthew 2:16 - was exceeding Mark 6:24 - The head

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty,.... As was the stone which was at the well's mouth, where Laban's flocks were watered, which could not be rolled away till all the shepherds were gathered together,

Genesis 29:2; and like the burdensome stone Jerusalem is compared to

Zechariah 12:3; and as that at the sepulchre of Christ, rolled away by the angel, Matthew 28:2. And sand is a very ponderous thing; difficult to be carried, as the Septuagint render it, as a bag of it is; and to which heavy afflictions are sometimes compared, Job 6:2;

but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than them both; it cannot be removed, it rests in his bosom; it is sometimes intolerable to himself; he sinks and dies under the weight of it, as Nabal did: "wrath killeth the foolish man", Job 5:2; and it is still more intolerable to others, as Nebuchadnezzar's wrath and his fiery furnace were.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Ecclus. 22:15; a like comparison between the heaviest material burdens and the more intolerable load of unreasoning passion.