Add parallel Print Page Options

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

Read full chapter

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

Read full chapter

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

Read full chapter

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.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

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