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Proverbs 27:3-5 in English

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Proverbs 27:3-5 in American Standard Version (1901)

3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool’s vexation is heavier than they both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden.
Proverbs 27 in American Standard Version (1901)

Proverbs 27:3-5 in Brenton Septuagint Translation

3 A stone is heavy, and sand cumbersome; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is merciless, and anger sharp: but envy can bear nothing.
5 Open reproofs are better than secret love.
Proverbs 27 in Brenton Septuagint Translation

Proverbs 27:3-5 in King James Version + Apocrypha

3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Proverbs 27 in King James Version + Apocrypha

Proverbs 27:3-5 in King James (Authorized) Version

3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Proverbs 27 in King James (Authorized) Version

Proverbs 27:3-5 in LXX2012: Septuagint in American English 2012

3 A stone is heavy, and sand cumbersome; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is merciless, and anger sharp: but envy can bear nothing.
5 Open reproofs are better than secret love.
Proverbs 27 in LXX2012: Septuagint in American English 2012

PROVERBS 27:3-5 in Revised Version with Apocrypha (1895)

3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s vexation is heavier than them both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.
PROVERBS 27 in Revised Version with Apocrypha (1895)

Proverbs 27:3-5 in Translation for Translators

3 It causes pain to our bodies to carry heavy stones or a pail full of sand, but doing something stupid/foolish can cause great pain to other people's spirits.
4 It is cruel to be angry with others, and our being angry sometimes destroys others, but being jealous of someone is RHQ often more cruel than that.
5 It is better to correct someone openly than to show that you ldon't ove that person by not correcting him.
Proverbs 27 in Translation for Translators

Proverbs 27:3-5 in LXX2012: Septuagint in British/International English 2012

3 A stone is heavy, and sand cumbersome; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is merciless, and anger sharp: but envy can bear nothing.
5 Open reproofs are better than secret love.
Proverbs 27 in LXX2012: Septuagint in British/International English 2012

Proverbs 27:3-5 in World English Bible with Deuterocanon

3 A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Proverbs 27 in World English Bible with Deuterocanon

Proverbs 27:3-5 in World English Bible (Catholic)

3 A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Proverbs 27 in World English Bible (Catholic)

Proverbs 27:3-5 in World English Bible British Edition with Deuterocanon

3 A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Proverbs 27 in World English Bible British Edition with Deuterocanon

Proverbs 27:3-5 in Bible in Basic English

3 A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.
4 Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
5 Better is open protest than love kept secret.
Proverbs 27 in Bible in Basic English

Proverbs 27:3-5 in Darby Translation

3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than them both.
4 Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Open rebuke is better than hidden love.
Proverbs 27 in Darby Translation

Proverbs 27:3-5 in Douay-Rheims 1899

3 A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.
4 Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?
5 Open rebuke is better than hidden love.
Proverbs 27 in Douay-Rheims 1899

Proverbs 27:3-5 in Free Bible Version

3 Stone may be heavy, and sand may weigh a lot, but the annoyance caused by stupid people is the biggest burden of all.
4 Fury may be fierce and cruel, anger may be a destructive flood, but who can withstand jealousy?
5 Open criticism is better than hidden love.
Proverbs 27 in Free Bible Version

Proverbs 27:3-5 in Geneva Bible 1599

3 A stone is heauie, and the sand weightie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.
4 Anger is cruell, and wrath is raging: but who can stand before enuie?
5 Open rebuke is better then secret loue.
Proverbs 27 in Geneva Bible 1599

Proverbs 27:3-5 in JPS TaNaKH 1917

3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than they both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.
Proverbs 27 in JPS TaNaKH 1917

Proverbs 27:3-5 in KJV Cambridge Paragraph Bible

3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; But who is able to stand before envy?
5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Proverbs 27 in KJV Cambridge Paragraph Bible

Proverbs 27:3-5 in Isaac Leeser Tanakh

3 A stone hath heaviness, and the sand, weight; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both of them.
4 Fury hath its cruelty, and anger its overwhelming power; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open reproof than concealed love.
Proverbs 27 in Isaac Leeser Tanakh

Proverbs 27:3-5 in Updated Brenton English Septuagint

3 A stone is heavy, and sand cumbersome; But a fool’s wrath is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is merciless, and anger sharp: But envy can bear nothing.
5 Open reproofs are better than secret love.
Proverbs 27 in Updated Brenton English Septuagint

Proverbs 27:3-5 in Nyangumarta English Bible

Proverbs 27:3-5 don't exist in Nyangumarta English Bible.

Proverbs 27:3-5 in George Noyes Bible

3 A stone is heavy and sand is weighty; But a fool's wrath is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open rebuke Than love kept concealed.
Proverbs 27 in George Noyes Bible

Proverbs [Sayings] 27:3-5 in One Unity Resource Bible

3 A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Proverbs [Sayings] 27 in One Unity Resource Bible

Proverbs 27:3-5 in Unlocked Literal Bible

3 Consider the heaviness of a stone and the weight of sand— the provocation of a fool is heavier than both.
4 There is the cruelty of rage and the flood of anger, but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Better is an open rebuke than hidden love.
Proverbs 27 in Unlocked Literal Bible

Proverbs 27:3-5 in World English Bible

3 A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Proverbs 27 in World English Bible

Proverbs 27:3-5 in World English Bible British Edition

3 A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Proverbs 27 in World English Bible British Edition

Proverbs 27:3-5 in Noah Webster Bible

3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Proverbs 27 in Noah Webster Bible

Proverbs 27:3-5 in World Messianic Bible

3 A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Proverbs 27 in World Messianic Bible

Proverbs 27:3-5 in World Messianic Bible British Edition

3 A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Proverbs 27 in World Messianic Bible British Edition

Proverbs 27:3-5 in Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

3 A stone is heavy, and gravel is chargeous; but the ire or the wrath of a fool is heavier than ever either.
4 Ire or Wrath hath no mercy, and strong vengeance breaking out hath no mercy; and who may suffer the fierceness of a spirit stirred?
5 Better is open reproving, than a love hid. Better is open amending, than hid love.

Proverbs 27:3-5 in Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling (Enhanced)

3 A stone is heavy, and gravel is chargeous (or and gravel is burdensome); but the ire of a fool is heavier than ever either.
4 Ire hath no mercy, and strong vengeance breaking out hath no mercy; and who may suffer the fierceness of a spirit stirred? (or and who can survive the fierceness of a stirred up, or a jealous, spirit?)
5 Better is open reproving, than a love hid. Better is open amending, than hid love. (Better be open rebukes, than hidden love.)

Proverbs 27:3-5 in Young's Literal Translation

3 A stone is heavy, and the sand is heavy, And the anger of a fool Is heavier than they both.
4 Fury is fierce, and anger is overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?
5 Better is open reproof than hidden love.