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."
— Proverbs 27:22, World English Bible
“Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.”
“Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him. ”
“If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.”
As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man.
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes are never satisfied.
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:
for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.