Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them. New Living Translation You cannot separate fools from their foolishness, even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle. English Standard Version Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him. Berean Standard Bible Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him. King James Bible Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. New King James Version Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, Yet his foolishness will not depart from him. New American Standard Bible Though you pound the fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, His foolishness still will not leave him. NASB 1995 Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, Yet his foolishness will not depart from him. NASB 1977 Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, Yet his folly will not depart from him. Legacy Standard Bible Though you pound an ignorant fool in a mortar with a pestle in the midst of crushed grain, His folly will not turn aside from him. Amplified Bible 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. Christian Standard Bible Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, you will not separate his foolishness from him. Holman Christian Standard Bible Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, you will not separate his foolishness 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English If you strike a fool in the assembly, you do not help him, neither do you remove his foolishness. Brenton Septuagint Translation Though thou scourge a fool, disgracing him in the midst of the council, thou wilt still in no wise remove his folly from him. Contemporary English Version No matter how hard you beat a fool, you can't pound out the foolishness. Douay-Rheims Bible 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. English Revised Version Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among bruised corn, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. GOD'S WORD® Translation If you crush a stubborn fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, [even then] his stupidity will not leave him. Good News Translation Even if you beat fools half to death, you still can't beat their foolishness out of them. 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. JPS Tanakh 1917 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him. Literal Standard Version If you beat the foolish in a mortar, | Among washed things—with a pestle, | His folly does not turn aside from off him. Majority Standard Bible Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him. New American Bible Though you pound fools with a pestle, their folly never leaves them. 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 Revised Standard Version Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, but the folly will not be driven out. 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. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Young's 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Do not Boast about Tomorrow…21A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but a man is tested by the praise accorded him. 22Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him. 23Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;… Cross References Proverbs 23:35 "They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?" Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent. Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good--you who are accustomed to doing evil. Treasury of Scripture Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. Proverbs 23:25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice. Exodus 12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead. Exodus 14:5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us? Jump to Previous Beat Bray Bruised Crush Crushed Depart Folly Fool Foolish Foolishness Grain Grind Grinding Groats Hammer Mortar Pound Remove Removed Shouldest Shouldst Turneth Washed Ways WheatJump to Next Beat Bray Bruised Crush Crushed Depart Folly Fool Foolish Foolishness Grain Grind Grinding Groats Hammer Mortar Pound Remove Removed Shouldest Shouldst Turneth Washed Ways WheatProverbs 27 1. observations of self love5. of true love 11. of care to avoid offenses 23. and of the household care (22) Though thou shouldest bray (i.e., pound) a fool (a self-willed, headstrong person) in a mortar among wheat with a pestle.--This would separate completely the husks from the wheat; but obstinacy has become a part of such a man's nature, and cannot be got rid of even by such violent measures.Verse 22. - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle. "To bray" is to pound or beat small. "Wheat," רִיפות, riphoth (only in 2 Samuel 17:19), "bruised corn." Vulgate, In pila quasi ptisanas (barley groats) feriente; Aquila and Theodotion, Ἐν μέσῳ ἐμπτισσομένων "In the midst of grains of corn being pounded." The LXX., reading, differently, has, "Though thou scourge a fool, disgracing him (ἐν μεσῳ συνεδρίου) in the midst of the congregation." Of course, the process of separating the husks from the corn by the use of pestle and mortar is much more delicate and careful than threshing in the usual clumsy way; hence is expressed the idea that the most elaborate pains are wasted on the incorrigible fool (see on Proverbs 1:20). His foolishness will not depart from him. An obstinate, self-willed, unprincipled man cannot be reformed by any means; his folly has become a second nature, and is not to be eliminated by any teaching, discipline, or severity. There is, too, a judicial blindness, when, after repeated warnings wilfully rejected and scorned, the sinner is left to himself, given over to a reprobate mind "Whoso teacheth a fool," Siracides pronounces, "is as one that glueth a potsherd together, and as he that waketh one from a sound sleep" (Ecclus. 22:7). Again, "The inner parts of a fool are like a broken vessel, and he will hold no knowledge as long as he liveth" (Ecclus. 21:14). In Turkey, we are told, great criminals were beaten to pieces in huge mortars of iron, in which they usually pounded rice. "You cannot straighten a dog's tail, try as you may," says a Telugu maxim (Lane). There is a saying of Schiller's which is quite proverbial, "Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce." Horace, 'Epist.,' 1:10, 24 - "Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret." Juvenal, 'Sat.,' 13:239 - "Tamen ad mores natura recurrit Hebrew Thoughאִ֥ם (’im) Conjunction Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not you grind תִּכְתּֽוֹשׁ־ (tiḵ·tō·wōš-) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 3806: To pound, pound fine, bray a fool הָאֱוִ֨יל ׀ (hā·’ĕ·wîl) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 191: Foolish in a mortar בַּֽמַּכְתֵּ֡שׁ (bam·maḵ·têš) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4388: A mortar, a socket with a pestle בַּֽעֱלִ֑י (ba·‘ĕ·lî) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5940: A pestle along with בְּת֣וֹךְ (bə·ṯō·wḵ) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 8432: A bisection, the centre grain, הָ֭רִיפוֹת (hā·rî·p̄ō·wṯ) Article | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 7383: Perhaps grain [yet] his folly אִוַּלְתּֽוֹ׃ (’iw·wal·tōw) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 200: Silliness will not לֹא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no depart תָס֥וּר (ṯā·sūr) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 5493: To turn aside from him. מֵ֝עָלָ֗יו (mê·‘ā·lāw) Preposition-m | third person masculine singular Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against Links Proverbs 27:22 NIVProverbs 27:22 NLT Proverbs 27:22 ESV Proverbs 27:22 NASB Proverbs 27:22 KJV Proverbs 27:22 BibleApps.com Proverbs 27:22 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 27:22 Chinese Bible Proverbs 27:22 French Bible Proverbs 27:22 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 27:22 Though you grind a fool (Prov. 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