Matthew Henry · Verse 22
Some are so bad, that even severe methods do not answer the end; what remains but that they should be rejected? The new-creating power of God's grace alone is able to make a change.
Proverbs 27:22
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
World English Bible
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WEBBE
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
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.
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.
BBE
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.
Original Hebrew
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אִם
'im
if
H518
תִּכְתּוֹשׁ־
tikh·to·osh-
you will pound
H3806
אֶת־
'et-
(marks the object)
H853
הָאֱוִיל
ha·'e·vil
the fool
H191
בַּמַּכְתֵּשׁ
ba·makh·tesh
in (the) mortar
H4388
בְּתוֹךְ
be·tokh
in among
H8432
הָרִיפוֹת
ha·ri·fot
the grain(s)
H7383
בַּעֱלִי
ba·'e·li
with the pestle
H5940
לֹא־
lo'-
not
H3808
תָסוּר
ta·sur
it will depart
H5493
מֵעָלָיו
me·'a·lav
from with (the) him
H5921
אִוַּלְתּוֹ פ
'i·val·to
foolishness his
H200
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