Verse 22

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

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 23:35 : 35 `They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake -- I seek it yet again!'
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.
  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostacy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart `is' sick.
  • Jer 44:15-16 : 15 And they answer Jeremiah -- all the men who are knowing that their wives are making perfume to other gods, and all the women who are remaining, a great assembly, even all the people who are dwelling in the land of Egypt, in Pathros -- saying: 16 `The word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah -- we are not hearkening unto thee;
  • Rev 16:10-11 : 10 And the fifth messenger did pour out his vial upon the throne of the beast, and his kingdom did become darkened, and they were gnawing their tongues from the pain, 11 and they did speak evil of the God of the heaven, from their pains, and from their sores, and they did not reform from their works.
  • Exod 12:30 : 30 And Pharaoh riseth by night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians, and there is a great cry in Egypt, for there is not a house where there is not `one' dead,
  • Exod 14:5 : 5 And it is declared to the king of Egypt that the people hath fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants is turned against the people, and they say, `What `is' this we have done? that we have sent Israel away from our service.'
  • Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: --
  • 2 Chr 28:22-23 : 22 And in the time of his distress -- he addeth to trespass against Jehovah, (this king Ahaz), 23 and he sacrificeth to the gods of Damascus -- those smiting him, and saith, `Because the gods of the kings of Aram are helping them, to them I sacrifice, and they help me,' and they have been to him to cause him to stumble, and to all Israel.