Parallel PRO 27:22

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BSB  ⇔ Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle,
⇔ yet his folly will not depart from him.

OEB Though you bray a fool with a pestle
⇔ along with bruised grain in a mortar.
⇔ you will not get him rid of his folly.

WEB Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
⇔ yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

NET If you should pound the fool in the mortar
 ⇔ among the grain with the pestle,
 ⇔ his foolishness would not depart from him.

LSV If you beat the foolish in a mortar,
Among washed things—with a pestle,
His folly does not turn aside from off him.

FBV Even if you ground stupid people in a mortar, crushing them like grain with the pestle, you can't get rid of stupidity from them.

T4T  ⇔ Even if you beat/crush a fool severely like [MET] you pulverize grain with a pestle,
⇔ you probably will not be able to cause him to stop ◄being foolish/doing foolish things►.

LEB  • [fn] the crushed grain, it will not drive folly from upon him.

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BBE Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

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JPS Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

ASV Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain,
 ⇔ Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

DRA Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.

YLT If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things — with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

DBY If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.

RV Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among bruised corn, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

WBS Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

KJB Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
  (Though thou/you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. )

BB Though thou shouldest bray a foole with a pestel in a morter like furmentie corne: yet wyll not his foolishnes go from hym.
  (Though thou/you should bray a foole with a pestel in a morter like furmentie corne: yet will not his foolishnes go from him.)

GNV Though thou shouldest bray a foole in a morter among wheate brayed with a pestell, yet will not his foolishnes depart from him.
  (Though thou/you should bray a foole in a morter among wheate brayed with a pestell, yet will not his foolishnes depart from him. )

CB Though thou shuldest bray a foole wt a pestell in a morter like otemeell, yet wil not his foolishnesse go from him.
  (Though thou/you shuldest bray a foole with a pestell in a morter like otemeell, yet will not his foolishness go from him.)

WYC 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.
  (Thouy thou/you beetist a fool in a morter, as with a pestel smytynge above dried barli; his folly shall not be done away from him.)

LUT Wenn du den Narren im Mörser zerstießest mit dem Stämpfel wie Grütze, so ließe doch seine Narrheit nicht von ihm.
  (Wenn you the Narren in_the Mörser zerstießest with to_him Stämpfel like Grütze, so ließe though/but his Narrheit not from him.)

CLV Si contuderis stultum in pila quasi ptisanas feriente desuper pilo, non auferetur ab eo stultitia ejus.]
  (When/But_if contuderis stultum in pila as_if ptisanas feriente desuper pilo, not/no auferetur away eo stultitia his.] )

BRN Though thou scourge a fool, disgracing him in the midst of the council, thou wilt still in no wise remove his folly from him.

BrLXX Ἐὰν μαστιγοῖς ἄφρονα ἐν μέσῳ συνεδρίου ἀτιμάζων, οὐ μὴ περιέλῃς τὴν ἀφροσύνην αὐτοῦ.
  (Ean mastigois afrona en mesōi sunedriou atimazōn, ou maʸ perielaʸs taʸn afrosunaʸn autou. )