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

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、

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

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.

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, you are searching for honesty. You struck your people, but they paid no attention. You crushed them, but they refused to be corrected. They are determined, with faces set like stone; they have refused to repent.

And you will say,“ They hit me, but I didn’t feel it. I didn’t even know it when they beat me up. When will I wake up so I can look for another drink?”

Why do you continue to invite punishment? Must you rebel forever? Your head is injured, and your heart is sick.

Pharaoh and all his officials and all the people of Egypt woke up during the night, and loud wailing was heard throughout the land of Egypt. There was not a single house where someone had not died.

Even during this time of trouble, King Ahaz continued to reject the Lord.He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus who had defeated him, for he said,“ Since these gods helped the kings of Aram, they will help me, too, if I sacrifice to them.” But instead, they led to his ruin and the ruin of all Judah.

Then all the women present and all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to idols— a great crowd of all the Judeans living in northern Egypt and southern Egypt— answered Jeremiah,“ We will not listen to your messages from the Lord!

When word reached the king of Egypt that the Israelites had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds.“ What have we done, letting all those Israelite slaves get away?” they asked.

“ The enemy boasted,‘ I will chase them and catch up with them. I will plunder them and consume them. I will flash my sword; my powerful hand will destroy them.’

Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness. His subjects ground their teeth in anguish,and they cursed the God of heaven for their pains and sores. But they did not repent of their evil deeds and turn to God.