Proverbios 27:22

22 Aunque machaques con el mazo al necio en un mortero entre el grano molido, no se apartará de él su necedad.

Proverbios 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.

Proverbios 27:22 In-Context

20 El Seol y el Abadón nunca se sacian; tampoco se sacian los ojos del hombre.

21 El crisol es para la plata y el horno para el oro, y al hombre se le prueba por la alabanza que recibe.

22 Aunque machaques con el mazo al necio en un mortero entre el grano molido, no se apartará de él su necedad.

23 Conoce bien la condición de tus rebaños, y presta atención a tu ganado;

24 porque las riquezas no son eternas, ni perdurará la corona por todas las generaciones.