Proverbs 27:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.”
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“Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things--with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 27:22 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 12:30During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.
- Exodus 14:5When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”
- Exodus 15:9The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
- 1 Samuel 19:21When this was reported to Saul, he sent more messengers, but they began to prophesy as well. So Saul tried again and sent messengers a third time, and even they began to prophesy.
- 1 Kings 13:33Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.
- 2 Chronicles 28:22In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
- Proverbs 14:24The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the effort of fools is folly.
- Proverbs 23:35“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”
- Isaiah 1:5Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
- Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
- Jeremiah 44:15Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, and all the women standing by—a great assembly—along with all the people living in the land of Egypt and in Pathros, said to Jeremiah,
- Revelation 16:10And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguish
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