22Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.


In Context

19 As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man.

20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes are never satisfied.

21 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.

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

23 Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

24 for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.

Proverbs 27:22 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

27:22Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

27:22Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

27:22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:22If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

27:22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among bruised corn, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:22Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

27:22If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things — with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:22Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.