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Proverbs 27:22

Wisdom

20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

21 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.

23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

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BSB
Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
KJV
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
WEB
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
ASV
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
DARBY
If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.
BLB
Though you may pound a fool in the mortar, in the midst of the grain with the pestle, his folly will not turn away from him.
ÅB
Om du støter dåren i morteren med støteren midt iblant grynene, så viker hans dårskap allikevel ikke fra ham.
OTB
Selv om du maler en dåre i en morter, maler dem som korn med en støter, vil deres dårskap ikke forlate dem.
B1930
Om du støter dåren i morteren med støteren midt iblandt grynene, så viker hans dårskap allikevel ikke fra ham.

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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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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,

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  • 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?

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  • 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.

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  • 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,

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  • 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.

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