Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 crucible for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man to the mouth praising him. 22 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. 23 Knowing, thou shalt know the face of thy flock; set thy heart to thy herds.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 23:35
They struck me, I was not pained; they beat me, I knew not: when shall I awake? I will add, I will yet seek it.
Jeremiah 5:3
O Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon faithfulness? thou didst smite them, and they were not pained; thou didst consume them, they refused to take instruction: they made their faces firm above the rock; they refused to turn back.
Isaiah 1:5
For what shall ye be yet struck? will ye add apostasy? every head for sickness, and every heart sick
Exodus 12:30
And Pharaoh will rise up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there will be a great cry in Egypt: for not a house where there was not the dead there.
Exodus 14:5
And it was announced to the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh will be turned, and his servants, against the people, and they will say, What this we did, that we sent forth Israel from serving us?
Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will enclose, I will divide the spoil: my soul shall be filled with them: I will draw out my sword, my hand shall dispossess them.
2 Chronicles 28:22-23
And in the time of straits to him and he will add to transgress against Jehovah: this the king Ahaz.
Jeremiah 44:15-16
And they will answer Jeremiah, all the men knowing that their wives burn incense to other gods, and all the women standing, a great convocation, and all the people dwelling in the land of Egypt in Pathros, saying,
Revelation 16:10-11
And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the wild beast; and his kingdom was darkened; and they pressed their tongues for pain,