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Proverbs 27

Prov. 27:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thought thou shouldest bray
kathash (Hebrew #3806)
to butt or pound
KJV usage: bray.
Pronounce: kaw-thash'
Origin: a primitive root
a fool
'eviyl (Hebrew #191)
(figuratively) silly
KJV usage: fool(-ish) (man).
Pronounce: ev-eel'
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to be perverse)
in a mortar
maktesh (Hebrew #4388)
a mortar; by analogy, a socket (of a tooth)
KJV usage: hollow place, mortar.
Pronounce: mak-taysh'
Origin: from 3806
among
tavek (Hebrew #8432)
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
KJV usage: among(-st), X between, half, X (there- ,where-), in(-to), middle, mid(-night), midst (among), X out (of), X through, X with(-in).
Pronounce: taw'-vek
Origin: from an unused root meaning to sever
wheat
riyphah (Hebrew #7383)
from 7322; (only plural), grits (as pounded)
KJV usage: ground corn, wheat.
Pronounce: ree-faw'
Origin: or riphah {ree-faw'}
with a pestle
`eliy (Hebrew #5940)
a pestle (as lifted)
KJV usage: pestle.
Pronounce: el-ee'
Origin: from 5927
, yet will not his foolishness
'ivveleth (Hebrew #200)
silliness
KJV usage: folly, foolishly(-ness).
Pronounce: iv-veh'-leth
Origin: from the same as 191
depart
cuwr (Hebrew #5493)
a primitive root; to turn off (literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), X grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, X be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Pronounce: soor
Origin: or suwr (Hosea 9:12) {soor}
from him.
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Isa. 1:5• 5Why be smitten any more? Ye will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. (Isa. 1:5)
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Jer. 5:3• 3Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. (Jer. 5:3)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 23:35• 35They have smitten me [thou wilt say], I am not sore;{HR}They have beaten me, I felt not:{HR}When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. (Prov. 23:35)
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Ex. 12:30• 30And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his bondmen, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house in which there was not one dead. (Ex. 12:30)
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Ex. 14:5• 5And it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his bondmen was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from our service? (Ex. 14:5)
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Ex. 15:9• 9The enemy said, I will pursue,{HR}I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;{HR}My soul shall be sated upon them;{HR}I will unsheath my sword, my hand shall dispossess them.{HR} (Ex. 15:9)
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2 Chron. 28:22‑23• 22And in the time of his trouble he transgressed yet more against Jehovah, this king Ahaz.
 23And he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which had smitten him; and he said, Since the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. (2 Chron. 28:22‑23)
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Isa. 1:5• 5Why be smitten any more? Ye will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. (Isa. 1:5)
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Jer. 5:3• 3Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. (Jer. 5:3)
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Jer. 44:15‑16• 15Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
 16As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee. (Jer. 44:15‑16)
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Rev. 16:10‑11• 10And the fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues for the pain,
 11and blasphemed the God of the heaven for their pains and for their sores, and repented not of their works. (Rev. 16:10‑11)
• Having permitted his character to develop itself, it is now too late to seek to eradicate the foolishness by corporal punishment. Nor will moral suasion effect the desired result, for the fool is deaf to all entreaties and cares for nothing but doing his own pleasure. It is a dreadful state to be in. God alone can awaken such a one to a sense of his guilt and his danger, and turn him from his folly. See Jeremiah 13:23. (“Proverbs Twenty-Seven” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle,{HR}Yet will not his folly depart from him.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)