Proverbs 27:22
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
21The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is tried by his praise.
23Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds;
Cross References
Exodus 14:5And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned towards the people, and they said: 'What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
1 Samuel 19:21And when it was told Saul, 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 distress did he act even more treacherously against the LORD, this same king Ahaz.
Proverbs 23:35'They have struck me, and I felt it not, they have beaten me, and I knew it not; when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.'
Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, are not Thine eyes upon truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they were not affected; Thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
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 →