Pro 27:3  A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, But a fool’s wrath is heavier than both of them.
Pro 27:4  Wrath is cruel and anger a torrent, But who is able to stand before jealousy?

One of my least favorite things to do is shovel dirt and move rocks. It hurts my back.

And dealing with the wrath of the fool is heavier than that.

So what is the wrath of the fool? How do we define it? Can we measure that wrath?

Well, it’s cruel, comes from anger, and torrent means to come rapidly and in large quantities.

You know that time you’ve offended someone and the “clap back”? When they quickly respond in offense to what you just said? Yeah, that’s a form of their wrath.

That wrath can manifest itself from a simple angry comeback, to psychological abuse, to emotional abuse, physical abuse, or something much worse.

It can be measured, from a seed to a whole tree.

And, if you find yourself constantly in this reactionary mode of giving people your wrath, congratulations, you are the fool, and you are putting a heavy weight on all those around you.

So why do we do this? Why do we pour out our wrath on those around us, and on those we love?

Jelousy.

We are irritated because that person has something we want. We have this image we present of who we are, we know we don’t live up to it, and the people we give our wrath to appear to fill in the gap. No one can reason with jealousy.

And then we attack them by cutting them down instead of building ourselves up. It’s far easier to be the fool giving a heavy weight for others than it is to relieve ourselves of that weight by changing who we are in Christ.

When we start to become the person we’re presenting to others, either by living up to the expectations we put on others, and by reducing those expectations, we become more comfortable in who we are. We do not need to be offended, and we do not need to attack others, give our wrath to them, making things much heavier than needed because we see the speck in their eye while ignoring the log in our own.