Proverbs 27:22 - Compare All Versions
Proverbs 27:22 NIV (New International Version)
Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them.
Proverbs 27:22 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.
Proverbs 27:22 NLT (New Living Translation)
You cannot separate fools from their foolishness, even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.
Proverbs 27:22 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, you will not separate his foolishness from him.
Proverbs 27:22 KJV (King James Version)
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 NKJV (New King James Version)
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
Proverbs 27:22 MSG (The Message)
Pound on a fool all you like— you can’t pound out foolishness.
Proverbs 27:22 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)
Though you pound the fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, His foolishness still will not leave him.
Proverbs 27:22 AMP (Amplified Bible)
Even though you pound a [hardened, arrogant] fool [who rejects wisdom] in a mortar with a pestle like grain, Yet his foolishness will not leave him.
Proverbs 27:22 NET (New English Translation)
If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.