KJV 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.
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Proverbs 27:22
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
WEB 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.
ASV 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.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 27
19 As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.
20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21 [As] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise.
22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.
23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.
24 For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?
25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אִ֥םH518 · imifתִּכְתּֽוֹשׁ־H3806 · ka.tashto poundאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָאֱוִ֨יל׀H191 · e.vilfool(ish)בַּֽמַּכְתֵּ֡שׁH4388 · makh.teshhollowבְּת֣וֹךְH8432 · ta.vekhmidstהָ֭רִיפוֹתH7383 · ri.phahgrainבַּֽעֱלִ֑יH5940 · e.lipestleלֹא־H3808 · lonotתָס֥וּרH5493 · surto turn aside: removeמֵ֝עָלָ֗יוH5921 · aluponאִוַּלְתּֽוֹ׃ פH200 · iv.ve.letfolly
Cross-references
Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.Proverbs 23:35They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.Isaiah 1:5Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.Revelation 16:10-11And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,Jeremiah 44:15-16Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,Exodus 14:5And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?Exodus 12:30And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for [there was] not a house where [there was] not one dead.2 Chronicles 28:22-23And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz.Exodus 15:9The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
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