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A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,
But the provocation of an ignorant fool is heavier than both of them.

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A stone is heavy and sand is weighty,
    but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier.

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22 Though you (A)pound an ignorant fool in a mortar with a pestle in the midst of crushed grain,
His [a]folly will not turn aside from him.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:22 A lack of wisdom due to negligence or carelessness; the activity of an ignorant fool

22 You cannot separate fools from their foolishness,
    even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.

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