Provérbios 27:22

22 Ainda que você moa o insensato,como trigo no pilão,a insensatez não se afastará dele.

Provérbios 27:22 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 27:22

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat
with a pestle
As the manna was, ( Numbers 11:8 ) ; and as wheat beat and bruised in a mortar, or ground in a mill, retains its own nature; so, let a wicked man be used ever so roughly or severely, by words, admonitions, reproofs, and counsels; or by deeds, by corrections and punishment, by hard words or blows, whether publicly or privately; in the midst of the congregation, as the Targum and Syriac version; or of the sanhedrim and council, as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him;
his inbred depravity and natural malignity and folly will not remove, nor will he leave his course of sinning he has been accustomed to; he is stricken in vain, he will revolt more and more, ( Isaiah 1:5 ) ( Jeremiah 5:3 ) ( 13:23 ) . Anaxarchus the philosopher was ordered by the tyrant Nicocreon to be pounded to death in a stone mortar with iron pestles F17, and which he endured with great patience.


FOOTNOTES:

F17 Laert. in Vit. Anaxarch. l. 9. p. 668.

Provérbios 27:22 In-Context

20 O Sheol e a Destruição são insaciáveis,como insaciáveis são os olhos do homem.
21 O crisol é para a prata e o forno é para o ouro,mas o que prova o homem são os elogios que recebe.
22 Ainda que você moa o insensato,como trigo no pilão,a insensatez não se afastará dele.
23 Esforce-se para saber bem como suas ovelhas estão,dê cuidadosa atenção aos seus rebanhos,
24 pois as riquezas não duram para sempre,e nada garante que a coroa passe de uma geração a outra.
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