Proverbs 27:22

Translation Comparison (18 available)

Original Language Text
hebrew
אִ֥ם תִּכְתּֽוֹשׁ אֶת הָ/אֱוִ֨יל בַּֽ/מַּכְתֵּ֡שׁ בְּ/ת֣וֹךְ הָ֭/רִיפוֹת בַּֽ/עֱלִ֑י לֹא תָס֥וּר מֵ֝/עָלָ֗י/ו אִוַּלְתּֽ/וֹ
English Translation
If you crush the fool in the mortar among the bruised, his folly will not depart from me.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds:

and the lambs have provided you wool to make clothing, and the sale of goats have paid for a field,

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

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 shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

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

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

You cannot separate fools from their foolishness,<br>even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.<br>

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

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

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

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