A stone is heavy, and sand a burden,
but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.

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Heavy is a stone and weighty is sand,
    but the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.

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22 Though you grind a fool
in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
you will not separate his foolishness from him.(A)

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22 If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle along with[a] the crushed grain,
    it will not drive folly from upon him.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:22 Or “in the midst of”