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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Gill's Exposition
For riches are not for ever,.... A man cannot be assured of the continuance of them; they are uncertain things, here today and gone tomorrow: wherefore, though a man has a considerable share of them,…
Barnes' Notes
Bray - To pound wheat in a mortar with a pestle, in order to free the wheat from its husks and impurities, is to go through a far more elaborate process than threshing. But the folly of the fool is…
Matthew Henry
Solomon had said (Pro 22:15), The foolishness which is bound in the heart of a child may be driven out by the rod of correction, for then the mind is to be moulded, the vicious habits not having taken…
Cambridge Bible
wheat Rather, bruised corn. In the only other place in which it occurs (2Sa 17:19) the word is rendered ground corn, A.V., and bruised corn, R.V. See note there in this Series.
Pro 27:23-27. The…
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