Proverbs 27:22

Thouy thou beetist a fool in a morter, as with a pestel smytynge aboue dried barli; his foli schal not be don awei fro him.

Bible (Wycliffe)

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 siluer is preuyd in a wellyng place, and gold `is preued in a furneys; so a man is preued bi the mouth of preyseris. The herte of a wickid man sekith out yuels; but a riytful herte sekith out kunnyng.

23Knowe thou diligentli the cheere of thi beeste; and biholde thou thi flockis.

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Cross References

Exodus 14:5And it was teld to the kyng of Egipcians, that the puple hadde fled; and the herte of Farao and of hise seruauntis was chaungid on the puple, and thei seiden, What wolden we do, that we leften Israel, that it schulde not serue us?

2 Chronicles 28:22Ferthermore also in the tyme of his angwisch he encreesside dispit ayens God; thilke kyng Achaz bi

Proverbs 23:35And thou schalt seie, Thei beeten me, but Y hadde not sorewe; thei drowen me, and Y feelide not; whanne schal Y wake out, and Y schal fynde wynes eft?

Jeremiah 5:3Lord, thin iyen biholden feith; thou hast smyte hem, and thei maden not sorewe; thou hast al tobroke hem, and thei forsoken to take chastisyng; thei maden her faces hardere than a stoon, and nolden turne ayen.

Revelation 16:10And the fifte aungel schedde out his viol on the seete of the beeste, and his kyngdom was maad derk; and thei eten togidere her tungis for sorewe,

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