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Proverbs 27:22

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Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

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  1. Proverbs 27:20

    Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

  2. Proverbs 27:21

    As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.

  3. Proverbs 27:23

    Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

  4. Proverbs 27:24

    For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.