Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.
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.
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 The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; so let a man be to the mouth that praiseth him. 22 If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him. 23 Be well acquainted with the appearance of thy flocks; look well to thy herds:
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 23:35
'They have smitten me, and I am not sore; they have beaten me, and I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.''
Jeremiah 5:3
Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Isaiah 1:5
Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Exodus 12:30
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his bondmen, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house in which there was not one dead.
Exodus 14:5
And it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his bondmen was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from our service?
Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be sated upon them; I will unsheath my sword, my hand shall dispossess them.
2 Chronicles 28:22-23
And in the time of his trouble he transgressed yet more against Jehovah, this king Ahaz.
Jeremiah 44:15-16
Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assemblage, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
Revelation 16:10-11
And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast; and its kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues with distress,