Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
King James Version
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Holman Bible
in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
you will not separate his foolishness from him.
International Standard Version
Though you crush a fool in a mortar and pestle as someone might crush grain, his stupidity still won't leave him.
A Conservative Version
Though thou should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
American Standard Version
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Amplified
Even though you pound a [hardened, arrogant] fool [who rejects wisdom] in a mortar with a pestle like grain,
Yet his foolishness will not leave him.
Bible in Basic English
Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.
Darby Translation
If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.
Julia Smith Translation
If thou shalt pound the foolish in a mortar in the midst of the grain with a pestle, thou shalt not remove from him his folly.
King James 2000
Though you should crush a fool in a mortar among grain with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Lexham Expanded 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.
Modern King James verseion
Though you should pound a fool in a bowl with a bar in the midst of wheat, his foolishness will not depart from him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Though thou shouldest bray a fool with a pedestal in a mortar like oatmeal, yet will not his foolishness go from him.
NET Bible
If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.
New Heart English Bible
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
The Emphasized Bible
Though thou pound a fool in a mortar, amidst grain, with a pestle, his folly, will not depart from him.
Webster
Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
World English Bible
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
Youngs Literal Translation
If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things -- with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.
Themes
Mortar » A vessel for pulverizing substances
Mortar » An instrument for pulverizing grain
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 27:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Life
21
And each
Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
And pay attention to your herds;
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 23:35
They beat me, but I did not know it.
When shall I awake?
I will
Jeremiah 5:3
You have
But they did not
You have consumed them,
But they
They have
They have refused to repent.
Isaiah 1:5
As you
The whole head is
And the whole heart is faint.
Exodus 12:30
Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was
Exodus 14:5
When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled,
Exodus 15:9
My
I will draw out my sword, my hand will
2 Chronicles 28:22-23
Now in the time of his distress this same King Ahaz
Jeremiah 44:15-16
Then
Revelation 16:10-11
Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the