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Proverbs 27:22 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 27 · verse 22
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 · King James Version
Proverbs 27:22 in context
20Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
23Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
24For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- foolishnessʼivvelethsillinessH200 →
- mortarmaktêsha mortarH4388 →
- pestleʻĕlîya pestleH5940 →
- amongtâveka bisectionH8432 →
- wheatrîyphâh, gritsH7383 →
- braykâthashto butt or poundH3806 →
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Solomon had said (Pro 22:15), The foolishness which is bound in the heart of a child may be driven out by the rod of correction, for then the mind is to be moulded, the vicious habits not having taken root; but here he shows that, if it be not done then, it will be next to impossible to do it afterwards;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary