King James Version (KJV)
Proverbs 27:22
“Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.”
Verse in context — Proverbs 27
20
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
21
[As] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise.
22
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.
23
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.
24
For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?