Proverbs 27:22 “Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his f…”

Proverbs 27:22

Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

World English Bible

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

American Standard Version

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

Geneva Bible 1599

Though thou shouldest bray a foole in a morter among wheate brayed with a pestell, yet will not his foolishnes depart from him.

Darby Translation

If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.

Young's Literal Translation

If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things — with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

Bible in Basic English

Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

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Cross references

“Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.”

Proverbs 23:35 Jeremiah 5:3 Isaiah 1:5 Exodus 12:30 Exodus 14:5 Exodus 15:9

Proverbs 23:35 · BSB

“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”

Jeremiah 5:3 · BSB

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

Isaiah 1:5 · BSB

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

Exodus 12:30 · BSB

During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

Exodus 14:5 · BSB

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”

Exodus 15:9 · BSB

The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but a man is tested by the praise accorded him.

23Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;

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