Proverbs 27:22

The Scriptures 1998

Even if you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle Along with crushed grain, His folly shall not leave him.

Cross References

Jeremiah 5:3

O יהוה, are Your eyes not on truth? You have smitten them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive instruction. They made their faces harder than rock, they refused to turn back.

Proverbs 23:35

“They smote me, I was not sick! They beat me, I did not know! When shall I wake up? Let me seek it again!”

Isaiah 1:5

Why should you be beaten any more? You continue in apostasy! All the head is sick, and all the heart faints.

Exodus 12:30

And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Mitsrites. And there was a great cry in Mitsrayim, for there was not a house where there was not a dead one.

Exodus 14:5

And it was reported to the sovereign of Mitsrayim that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people. And they said, “Why have we done this, that we have let Yisra’ĕ

Exodus 15:9

“The enemy said, ‘I pursue, I overtake, I divide the spoil, my being is satisfied on them. I draw out my sword, my hand destroys them.’

Proverbs 26:11

As a dog returns to his own vomit, So a fool repeats his folly.

Jeremiah 13:23

Does a Kushite change his skin and a leopard its spots? You who are taught to do evil are also unable to do good!

1 Samuel 19:21

And when Sha’ul was told, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. So Sha’ul sent messengers again, the third time, and they prophesied also.

1 Kings 13:33

After this event Yaroḇ

Proverbs 14:24

The crown of the wise is their wealth, The folly of fools is folly.