Proverbios 27:22

22 Es imposible separar al necio de su necedad,
aunque lo muelas como al grano en un mortero.

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 Así como la Muerte y la Destrucción
nunca se sacian,
el deseo del hombre nunca queda satisfecho.

21 El fuego prueba la pureza del oro y de la plata,
pero la persona es probada por las alabanzas que recibe.

22 Es imposible separar al necio de su necedad,
aunque lo muelas como al grano en un mortero.

23 Mantente al tanto del estado de tus rebaños
y entrégate de lleno al cuidado de tus ganados,

24 porque las riquezas no duran para siempre,
y tal vez la corona no pase a la próxima generación.