Proverbs 27:22

NIV: Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them.

NAS: Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, Yet his foolishness 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.

GWT: If you crush a stubborn fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, [even then] his stupidity will not leave 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.

DBY: If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.

DRB: Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.

WBS: Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not 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.

YLT: If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things -- with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.