Proverbs 27:22
What does Proverbs 27:22 mean?
A plain-English look at Proverbs 27:22 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things--with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 14:5
And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
- Jeremiah 5:3
O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were 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.
- 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.
- Revelation 16:10
And the fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was darkened; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
- Isaiah 1:5
Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Jeremiah 44:15
Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great assembly, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
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