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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.

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