22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar,

grinding them like grain with a pestle,

you will not remove their folly from them.

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

Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

22 You cannot separate fools from their foolishness,

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

22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,

Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

22 Even if you ground up a foolish person like grain in a bowl,

you couldn’t remove the foolishness.

22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain,

Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

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

22 If you crush a stubborn fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, 

⸤even then⸥ his stupidity will not leave him. 

22 Though you grind a fool

in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,

you will not separate his foolishness from him.

22 Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle

along with crushed grain,

but the folly will not be driven out.

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

it will not drive folly from upon him.

22 You can grind a foolish person in a mill.

You can grind him as you would grind grain with a tool.

But you can’t remove his foolishness from him.

22 Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,

Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.