Proverbs 27:22

Though thou shouldest bray a foole with a pestel in a morter like furmentie corne: yet wyll not his foolishnes go from hym.

Bible (Bishops')

In The 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.

In Context

21As is the fining pot for the siluer, and the furnace for golde: so is a man tryed by the mouth of him that prayseth him.

23Be thou diligent to knowe the state of thy cattell thy selfe, and loke well to thy flockes.

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Cross References

Proverbs 23:35They haue beaten me [shalt thou say] and I was not sicke, they haue stricken me, and I felt it not: When I am well wakened, I wil go to the drinke again.

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 →

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