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A stone is heavy and sand is a burden,
but aggravation from a stubborn fool is heavier than 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 Even if you grind a stubborn fool
    like grain with a mortar and pestle,
his stupidity will not leave him.

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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”