Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him. Cross References Proverbs 23:35 "They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?" Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent. Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good--you who are accustomed to doing evil. Treasury of Scripture Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. Proverbs 23:25 Exodus 12:30 Exodus 14:5 |