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Proverbs 27:22

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22Though you grind a fool

in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,

you will not separate his foolishness from him.b

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Cross references

  1. bPr 23:35; 26:11; Jr 5:3

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle

along with crushed grain,

yet his folly will not depart from him.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Though you grind a fool in a mortar,

grinding them like grain with a pestle,

you will not remove their folly from them.

NLTNew Living Translation

You cannot separate fools from their foolishness,

even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle along with the crushed grain,

it will not drive folly from upon him.

KJV 1900King James Version

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle,

Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.