Proverbi 27:22

22 Anche se tu pestassi lo stolto in un mortaio in mezzo al grano col pestello, la sua follia non lo lascerebbe.

Proverbi 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Proverbi 27:22 In-Context

20 Il soggiorno dei morti e l’abisso sono insaziabili, e insaziabili son gli occhi degli uomini.

21 Il crogiuolo è per l’argento, il forno fusorio per l’oro, e l’uomo è provato dalla bocca di chi lo loda.

22 Anche se tu pestassi lo stolto in un mortaio in mezzo al grano col pestello, la sua follia non lo lascerebbe.

23 Guarda di conoscer bene lo stato delle tue pecore, abbi gran cura delle tue mandre;

24 perché le ricchezze non duran sempre, e neanche una corona dura d’età in età.