Proverbs 27:22
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27:22If you should pound55 the fool in the mortar
among the grain56 with the pestle,
his foolishness would not depart from him.57
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- 55 The verb means “to pound” in a mortar with a pestle (cf. “Crush”; “grind”). The imperfect is in a conditional clause, an unreal, hypothetical condition to make the point.
- 56 The Hebrew term רִיפוֹת (rifot) refers to some kind of grain spread out to dry and then pounded. It may refer to barley groats (coarsely ground barley), but others have suggested the term means “cheeses” ( 937 ). Most English versions have “grain” without being more specific; “grits.”
- 57 The contains this paraphrase: “If you scourge a fool in the assembly, dishonoring him, you would not remove his folly.” This removes the imagery of mortar and pestle from the verse. Using the analogy of pounding something in a mortar, the proverb is saying even if a fool was pounded or pulverized, meaning severe physical punishment, his folly would not leave him—it is too ingrained in his nature.
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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.
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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.
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