Verse 22

Though you pound a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Selv om du knuser en dårer med en morter blant knust korn, vil hans dårskap ikke forlate ham.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Om du maler en dåre som korn med en klubbe i en morter, vil ikke dårskap forlate ham.

• Norsk King James

  Selv om du skulle knuse en tåpe i en morter med hvete, vil han fortsatt være en tåpe.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Om du knuser en dåre i en morter blant gryn, vil hans dårskap ikke forlate ham.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Selv om du skulle knuse en dåre i en morter blant kornet med en stempel, vil ikke hans dumhet vike fra ham.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Selv om du knuser en tosk i en morter med en støter blant kornet, vil hans dårskap likevel ikke forlate ham.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Selv om du skulle mase en tåpe i en morter midt i hveten med en støter, vil hans tåpelighet aldri forlate ham.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Selv om du knuser en tosk i en morter med en støter blant kornet, vil hans dårskap likevel ikke forlate ham.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Om du pundrer en dåre med pestelen i morteren, vil hans dårskap ikke vike fra ham.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Though you grind a fool like grain in a mortar with a pestle, their foolishness will not leave them.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Selv om du knuser dåren i en morter blant knust korn med en piggknuser, vil hans dumhet ikke forlate ham.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Dersom du vilde støde en Daare i Morteren med Støderen midt iblandt Gryn, skal (dog) ikke hans Daarlighed vige fra ham.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Om du knuser en tosk i en morter blant hveten med en morterstav, vil ikke hans dårskap forlate ham.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Om du maler en dåre i en morter sammen med korn, vil ikke hans dårskap forlate ham.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Om du slår den dumme i en morter sammen med korn, vil ikke hans dårskap vike fra ham.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Selv om du maler en dåre i en morter med en pistill sammen med knust korn, vil ikke hans dårskap forlate ham.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Om du knuser en dåre i en morter blant korn, vil hans dårskap ikke forlate ham.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Though thou shuldest bray a foole wt a pestell in a morter like otemeell, yet wil not his foolishnesse go from him.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Though thou shouldest bray a foole in a morter among wheate brayed with a pestell, yet will not his foolishnes depart from him.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Though thou shouldest bray a foole with a pestel in a morter like furmentie corne: yet wyll not his foolishnes go from hym.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, Yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things -- with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 23:35 : 35 "They have struck me," you shall say, "and I was not hurt; they have beaten me, and I did not feel it; when shall I awake, I will seek it yet again."
• Jer 5:3 : 3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
• Isa 1:5 : 5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
• Jer 44:15-16 : 15 Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great multitude, even all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, 16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.
• Rev 16:10-11 : 10 And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain, 11 and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.
• Exod 12:30 : 30 And Pharaoh rose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
• Exod 14:5 : 5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
• Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
• 2 Chr 28:22-23 : 22 And in the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against the LORD, this is that King Ahaz. 23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, who had struck him, and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.