22
Though you
apound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
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Proverbs 23:35, Proverbs 26:11, Jeremiah 5:3
Proverbs 23
35
"They astruck me, but I did not become ill; They beat me, but I did not know it. When shall I awake? I will bseek another drink."
Proverbs 26
11
Like aa dog that returns to its vomit Is a fool who brepeats his folly.
Jeremiah 5
3
O Lord, do not aYour eyes look for truth? You have bsmitten them, But they did not weaken; You have consumed them, But they crefused to take correction. They have dmade their faces harder than rock; They have refused to repent.