Proverbs 27:22
If you beat the foolish in a mortar, || Among washed things—with a pestle, || His folly does not turn aside from off him.
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In Context
21A refining pot [is] for silver, and a furnace for gold, || And a man according to his praise.
23Know the face of your flock well, || Set your heart to the droves,
Cross References
Exodus 14:5And it is declared to the king of Egypt that the people have fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants is turned against the people, and they say, “What [is] this we have done, that we have sent Israel away from our service?”
1 Samuel 19:21And they declare [it] to Saul, and he sends other messengers, and they prophesy—they also; and Saul adds and sends messengers a third time, and they prophesy—they also.
2 Chronicles 28:22And in the time of his distress—he adds to trespass against YHWH (this King Ahaz),
Proverbs 23:35“They struck me, I have not been sick, || They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet again!”
Jeremiah 5:3YHWH, Your eyes, are they not on steadfastness? You have struck them, and they have not grieved, || You have consumed them, || They have refused to receive instruction, || They made their faces harder than a rock, || They have refused to turn back.
Revelation 16:10And the fifth messenger poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened, and they were gnawing their tongues from the pain,
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 →