Proverbs 27:22

In 11 translations

BSB

Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.

KJV

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

WEB

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

ASV

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

LSV

If you beat the foolish in a mortar, || Among washed things—with a pestle, || His folly does not turn aside from off him.

YLT

If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things — with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

DBY

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

DRC

Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.

GNV

Though thou shouldest bray a foole in a morter among wheate brayed with a pestell, yet will not his foolishnes depart from him.

JPS

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

LXXE

Though thou scourge a fool, disgracing him in the midst of the council, thou wilt still in no wise remove his folly from him.

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WLC

אִ֥ם תִּכְתּֽוֹשׁ־אֶת־הָאֱוִ֨יל ׀ בַּֽמַּכְתֵּ֡שׁ בְּת֣וֹךְ הָ֭רִיפוֹת בַּֽעֱלִ֑י לֹא־תָס֥וּר מֵ֝עָלָ֗יו אִוַּלְתּֽוֹ׃

LXX-Br

Ἐὰν μαστιγοῖς ἄφρονα ἐν μέσῳ συνεδρίου ἀτιμάζων, οὐ μὴ περιέλῃς τὴν ἀφροσύνην αὐτοῦ.

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Cross-references most cited first

• 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.
• 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.
• Revelation 16:10–11And 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 and curse the God of heaven for their pains and sores; yet…
• 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.”
• Jeremiah 44:15–16Then 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, “As…
• 2 Chronicles 28:22–23In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD. Since Damascus had defeated him, he sacrificed to their gods and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will…
• 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.’

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