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Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, Yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
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An Unbreakable Folly
Commentators explain the verse's powerful imagery. To "bray a fool in a mortar" refers to pounding grain with a pestle to separate the wheat from the husk. This was a violent and thorough process. The proverb's point is that even the most extreme corrective measures cannot separate a committed fool from their foolishness.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Bray - To pound wheat in a mortar with a pestle, in order to free the wheat from its husks and impurities, is to go through a far more elabo…
19th Century
Anglican
Though you should bray (i.e., pound) a fool (a self-willed, headstrong person) in a mortar among wh…
Baptist
No troubles, no afflictions, can of themselves make a fool into a wise man. The sinner remains a sinner, after all providential chastisements, unle…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle As the manna was,…
Some are so bad that even severe methods do not fulfill the purpose; what remains but that they should be rejected? The new-creating power of God's…
