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Proverbs 27:22

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22 Even if you beat fools half to death, you still can't beat their foolishness out of them.
22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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