"Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, {yet} will not his foolishness depart from him." — Proverbs 27:22

Proverbs 27:22 · KJV

“Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, {yet} will not his foolishness depart from him.”

— Proverbs 27:22

Verse 21

{As} the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so {is} a man to his praise.

Verse 23

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, {and} look well to thy herds. {look...: Heb. set thy heart}

Proverbs 27 — Context

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. {never: Heb. not}

{As} the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so {is} a man to his praise.

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, {yet} will not his foolishness depart from him.

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, {and} look well to thy herds. {look...: Heb. set thy heart}

For riches {are} not for ever: and doth the crown {endure} to every generation? {riches: Heb. strength} {to...: Heb. to generation and generation?}

Cross References

Proverbs 23:35

They have stricken me, {shalt thou say, and} I was not sick; they have beaten me, {and} I felt {it} not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. {I felt...: Heb. I knew it not}

Jeremiah 5:3

O LORD, {are} not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, {but} 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 stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. {revolt...: Heb. increase revolt}

Revelation 16:10-11

And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

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?

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.

Jeremiah 44:15-16

Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

2 Chronicles 28:22-23

And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this {is that} king Ahaz.