Proverbs 27:22
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22iThough thou shouldest bray a fool in a kmortar among lwheat with a pestle,
Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Footnotes
- iComp. ch. 23:35. See Isai. 1:5.
- kSee Judg. 15:19.
- l2 Sam. 17:19 (Heb.).
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle
along with crushed grain,
yet his folly will not depart from him.
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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.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Though you grind a fool
in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
you will not separate his foolishness from him.
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NLTNew Living Translation
You cannot separate fools from their foolishness,
even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.
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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.
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press