Proverbs 27:22
Though thou shouldest bray a foole with a pestel in a morter like furmentie corne: yet wyll not his foolishnes go from hym.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 23:35 : 35 They haue beaten me shalt thou say and I was not sicke, they haue stricken me, and I felt it not: When I am well wakened, I wil go to the drinke again.
- Jer 5:3 : 3 Wheras thou (O Lorde) lokest only vpon faith and trueth: Thou hast scourged them, but they toke no repentaunce, thou hast corrected them for amendement, but they refused thy correction, they made their faces harder then a stone, and woulde not amende.
- Isa 1:5 : 5 Why shoulde ye be stricken any more? for ye are euer fallyng away: euery head is diseased, and euery heart heauy:
- Jer 44:15-16 : 15 Then all the men whiche knewe that their wiues had offred vnto straunge gods, and a great sort of wiues that stoode there, yea and all the people that dwelt there in Egypt in the citie of Phatures, aunswered Ieremie and saide: 16 As for the wordes that thou hast spoken vnto vs in the name of the Lorde, we wyll in no wise heare them:
- Rev 16:10-11 : 10 And the fifth angell powred out his viall vpon the seate of the beast, and his kyngdome waxed darke, & they gnewe their tongues for sorowe, 11 And blasphemed the God of heauen for their sorowe, and for theirs sores, and repented not of their deedes.
- Exod 12:30 : 30 And Pharao rose in the nyght, he and his seruauntes, and all the Egyptians, and there was a great crye in Egypt: for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
- Exod 14:5 : 5 And it was tolde the kyng of Egypt that the people fledde. And the heart of Pharao and of his seruauntes turned agaynst the people, and they said: Why haue we done this, that we haue let Israel go out of our seruice?
- Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemie sayde, I wyll folowe on the I wyll ouertake them I wyll deuide the spoyle, and my lust shalbe satisfied vppon them: I wyll drawe my sworde, myne hande shall destroy them.
- 2 Chr 28:22-23 : 22 And in the very time of his tribulation, did king Ahaz trespasse yet more against the Lorde. 23 For he offered vnto the gods of them of Damascon, which beat him: and he sayd, Because the gods of the kinges of Syria helpe them, therefore wyll I offer to them, that they may helpe me also: But they were his destruction, and the destruction of all Israel.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Prov 26:3-64 verses75%
3 Unto the horse belongeth a whip, to the asse a brydle: and a rod to the fooles backe.
4 Geue not the foole an aunswere after his foolishnes, lest thou become like vnto him.
5 But make the foole an aunswere to his foolishnesse, lest he be wyse in his owne conceipt.
6 As he that cutteth of his messengers feete endamageth himselfe: so doth he that committeth a message to a foole.
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9 Tell nothing into the eares of a foole: for he wyll despise the wysdome of thy wordes.
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23 Be thou diligent to knowe the state of thy cattell thy selfe, and loke well to thy flockes.
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6 An vnwise man doth not consider this: and a foole doth not vnderstande it.
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6 For the laughyng of fooles is like the cracking of thornes vnder a pot: and that is but a vayne thing.
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21 As is the fining pot for the siluer, and the furnace for golde: so is a man tryed by the mouth of him that prayseth him.
- Prov 26:8-92 verses72%
8 He that setteth a foole in hye dignitie, that is euen as if a man would bynde a stone in a sling.
9 As is a thorne in the hande of a drunkarde: so is a parable in a fooles mouth.
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15 Foolishnes is bounde in the heart of the chylde: and the rodde of correction shall driue it away.
- Prov 14:7-82 verses72%
7 Get thee from a foolishe man, when thou perceauest not in hym the lippes of knowledge.
8 The wisdome of the circumspect man, is to vnderstande his way: but the foolishnesse of the vnwise, deceaueth.
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3 The stone is heauie, and the sande wayghtie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.
- Prov 26:11-122 verses72%
11 Like as the dogge turneth agayne to his owne vomite: euen so a foole beginneth his foolishnes agayne afreshe.
12 If thou seest a man that is wise in his owne conceipt: there is more hope in a foole, then in hym.
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3 In the mouth of the foolishe is the rodde of pryde: but the lippes of the wyse wyll preserue them.
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8 Understande ye vnwyse among the people: O ye fooles, when wyll ye be well aduised?
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16 A wise man doth all thynges with discretion: but a foole wyll declare his follie.
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11 A foole vttereth all his mynde at once: but a wyse man kepeth it in tyll afterwarde.
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9 If a wise man contendeth with a foole: whether he be angry or laugh, there is no rest.
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15 The way of a foole is strayght in his owne eyes: but he that hearkeneth vnto counsayle is wise.
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3 A foole wyll shewe him selfe when he goeth by the way, yet thinketh he that euery man doth as foolishly as him self.
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24 Riches are as a crowne vnto the wise: but the ignoraunce of fooles is very foolishnesse.
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2 A foole hath no delight in vnderstanding: but onlye to vtter the fansies of his owne heart.
- Prov 29:19-202 verses71%
19 A stubbourne seruaunt wyll not be the better for wordes: for though he vnderstande, yet will he not regarde them.
20 Seest thou a man that is hastie to speake vnaduisedly? there is more hope in a foole then in hym.
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16 Whereto hath a foole treasure in his hande to bye wisdome, seeing he hath no minde therto?
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23 A discrete man doth hyde knowledge: but the heart of fooles blabbeth out foolishnesse.
- Eccl 10:14-152 verses71%
14 A foole is full of wordes, and a man can not tell what shall come to passe: who wyll then warne hym of it that shall folowe after hym?
15 The labour of the foolishe is greeuous vnto them, whyle they know not howe to go into the citie.
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3 The foolishnesse of man paruerteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lorde.
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5 A foole dispiseth his fathers correction: but he that taketh heede when he is reproued, shall haue the more vnderstandyng.
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10 Pleasure is not seemely for a foole: muche lesse for a bondman to haue rule of princes.
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21 He that begetteth a foole, begetteth his sorowe: and the father of a foole can haue no ioy.
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7 Wysdome is to hye a thyng for a foole: for he dare not open his mouth in the gate.
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21 Foolishnesse is ioy to him that is destitute of knowledge: but a man of vnderstandyng walketh vprightly.
- Isa 28:27-282 verses70%
27 For fitches shall not be threshed with an harrowe, neither shall a cart wheele be brought thorowe the comin: but the fitches are beaten out with a staffe, and comin with a rodde.
28 But the seede that bread is made of, is threshed, though it be not alway a threshing, and the cart wheele must be brought ouer it, lest he grinde it with his teeth.
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29 Who so maketh disquietnesse in his owne house, he shal haue winde for his heritage: and the foole shalbe seruaunt to the wise.
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23 A foole doth wickedly, and maketh but a sport of it: but wisdome ruleth the man that hath vnderstandyng.
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20 In a wise mans house there is a great treasure and oyle: but a foolishe body spendeth vp all.
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33 Wisdome resteth in the heart of hym that hath vnderstandyng, and it shalbe knowen among them that are vnlearned.
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25 An vndiscrete sonne is a griefe vnto his father: and an heauinesse vnto his mother.
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8 A wyse man wyll receaue warning: but a prating foole shalbe punished.
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16 A wyse man feareth, and departeth from euyll: but the foole is angry, and counteth hym selfe sure.
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1 Lyke as snowe is not meete in sommer and rayne in haruest: euen so is worship vnseemely for a foole.
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14 The heart of hym that hath vnderstandyng doth seke knowledge: but the mouth of fooles is fed with foolishnesse.
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19 For ye suffer fooles gladly, seyng ye your selues are wyse.