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Proverbs 27:22
22 nThough you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
Proverbs 27:22 — The New International Version (NIV)
22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar,
grinding them like grain with a pestle,
you will not remove their folly from them.
Proverbs 27:22 — English Standard Version (ESV)
22 Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle
along with crushed grain,
yet his folly will not depart from him.
Proverbs 27:22 — King James Version (KJV 1900)
22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle,
Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Proverbs 27:22 — New Living Translation (NLT)
22 You cannot separate fools from their foolishness,
even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.
Proverbs 27:22 — New Century Version (NCV)
22 Even if you ground up a foolish person like grain in a bowl,
you couldn’t remove the foolishness.
Proverbs 27:22 — American Standard Version (ASV)
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.
Proverbs 27:22 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)
22 If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.
Proverbs 27:22 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
22 If you crush a stubborn fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
⸤even then⸥ his stupidity will not leave him.
Proverbs 27:22 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
22 Though you grind a fool
in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
you will not separate his foolishness from him.
Proverbs 27:22 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
22 Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle
along with crushed grain,
but the folly will not be driven out.
Proverbs 27:22 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)
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.
Proverbs 27:22 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)
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.
Proverbs 27:22 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)
22 Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
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