Proverbs 27:22

New American Bible - revised edition

Though you pound fools with a pestle, their folly never leaves them.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:33

Even after this, Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but again made priests for the high places from among the common people. Whoever desired it was installed as a priest of the high places.

Exodus 12:30

Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was loud wailing throughout Egypt, for there was not a house without its dead. Permission to Depart.

Exodus 14:5

When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants had a change of heart about the people. “What in the world have we done!” they said. “We have released Israel from our service!”

Exodus 15:9

The enemy boasted, “I will pursue and overtake them; I will divide the spoils and have my fill of them; I will draw my sword; my hand will despoil them!”

Proverbs 14:24

The crown of the wise is wealth; the diadem of fools is folly.

Proverbs 23:35

“They struck me, but it did not pain me; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When can I get up, when can I go out and get more?”

Proverbs 26:11

As dogs return to their vomit, so fools repeat their folly.

Isaiah 1:5

Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can Ethiopians change their skin, leopards their spots? As easily would you be able to do good, accustomed to evil as you are.

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

1 Samuel 19:21

Informed of this, Saul sent other messengers, who also fell into the prophetic ecstasy. For the third time Saul sent messengers, but they too fell into a prophetic ecstasy. Saul Among the Prophets.