Proverbs 27:22
If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
23Be well acquainted with the appearance of thy flocks; look well to thy herds:
Cross References
Exodus 14:5And it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his bondmen was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from our service?
1 Samuel 19:21And it was told Saul, and he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
2 Chronicles 28:22And in the time of his trouble he transgressed yet more against Jehovah, this king Ahaz.
Proverbs 23:35''They have smitten me, [and] I am not sore; they have beaten me, [and] I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.''
Jeremiah 5:3Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Revelation 16:10And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast; and its kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues with distress,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:22
21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise. This gives us a touchstone by which we may try ourselves. Silver and gold are tried by putting them into the furnace and fining-pot; so is man tried by praising him. Let him be extolled and preferred, and then he will show himself what he is. 1. If a man be made, by the applause that is given him, proud, conceited, and scornful,—if he take the glory to himself which he should transmit to God, as Herod did,—if, the more he is… Read the whole commentary →