Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them.

你虽用杵将愚妄人与打碎的麦子一同捣在臼中，他的愚妄还是离不了他。

用杵把愚妄人与谷粒一同捣在臼中，他的愚昧还是离不了他。

用杵把愚妄人与谷粒一同捣在臼中，他的愚昧还是离不了他。

就算把愚人放在臼里与麦子一起捣碎，他仍然难脱愚昧。

你虽然用杵把愚妄人与碎谷一同捣在臼中，他的愚妄还是离不了他。

就算用杵将愚妄人与麦子一同捣碎在石臼中，他的愚妄还是不会离开他。

你雖用杵將愚妄人與打碎的麥子一同搗在臼中，他的愚妄還是離不了他。

用杵把愚妄人與穀粒一同搗在臼中，他的愚昧還是離不了他。

用杵把愚妄人與穀粒一同搗在臼中，他的愚昧還是離不了他。

就算把愚人放在臼裡與麥子一起搗碎，他仍然難脫愚昧。

你雖然用杵把愚妄人與碎穀一同搗在臼中，他的愚妄還是離不了他。

你雖將愚妄人搗在臼中，（用杵將他跟碎穀同搗）他的愚妄還是離不了他。

就算用杵將愚妄人與麥子一同搗碎在石臼中，他的愚妄還是不會離開他。

愚人與穀、以杵倂搗於臼、亦不能去其愚、○

扑責愚人、如擣麥於臼、亦不能去其愚、

爾以杵擣麥於臼、可以去皮、若擣愚人於其間、不能去其愚、

Suppose you could grind a foolish person in a mill. Suppose you could grind them as you would grind grain with a tool. Even then you could not remove their foolishness from them.

Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.

You cannot separate fools from their foolishness, even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, you will not separate his foolishness from him.

Though you pound the fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, His foolishness still will not leave him.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, you will not separate his foolishness from him.

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

If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

“ They hit me,” you will say,“ but I’m not hurt! They beat me, but I don’t feel it! When will I wake up so I can find another drink?”

Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted.

Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.

In his time of trouble King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the Lord.He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him; for he thought,“ Since the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they were his downfall and the downfall of all Israel.

Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, along with all the women who were present— a large assembly— and all the people living in Lower and Upper Egypt, said to Jeremiah,“ We will not listen to the message you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord!

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said,“ What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!”

The enemy boasted,‘ I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will destroy them.’

The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in agonyand cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.