22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them.
22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
22 Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.
22 Pound on a fool all you like - you can't pound out foolishness.
22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
22 You cannot separate fools from their foolishness, even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 27:22
Commentary on Proverbs 27:22
(Read Proverbs 27:22)
Some are so bad, that even severe methods do not answer the end; what remains but that they should be rejected? The new-creating power of God's grace alone is able to make a change.