Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 As the crucible tests silver, and the furnace assays gold; so praise received tests a man. 22 Though you crush a fool in a mortar and pestle as someone might crush grain, his stupidity still won't leave him. 23 Keep well informed of the condition of your flocks and pay attention to your herds,
Phrases
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Cross References
Proverbs 23:35
"They struck me," you will say, "but I never felt it. They beat me, but I never knew it When will I wake up? I want another drink."
Jeremiah 5:3
LORD, don't your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they didn't flinch. You brought them to an end, but they refused to receive discipline. They made their faces harder than stone, and they refused to repent.
Isaiah 1:5
"Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? Your whole head is sick, and your whole heart is faint.
Exodus 12:30
Pharaoh got up during the night, he, all his officials, and all the Egyptians, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, because there was not a house without someone dead in it.
Exodus 14:5
When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the minds of Pharaoh and his officials changed toward the people, and they said, "What have we done in releasing Israel from serving us?"
Exodus 15:9
"The enemy said, "I'll pursue them, I'll overtake them, I'll divide the spoil. I'll satisfy my anger on them, I'll draw my sword, and my hand will bring them to ruin.'
2 Chronicles 28:22-23
In the midst of his troubles, King Ahaz became more and more unfaithful to the LORD.
Jeremiah 44:15-16
Then all the men who knew that their wives were offering sacrifices to other gods and all the women who were standing by a large group, including all the people who were living in the land of Egypt in Pathros answered Jeremiah:
Revelation 16:10-11
The fifth angel poured his bowl on the throne of the beast. Its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed on their tongues in anguish