Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThough thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things--with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.
If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentProverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
- Author
- Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
- Date
- Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.