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箴言 27:22

22 愚かな者をうすに入れ、きねをもって、麦と共にこれをついても、その愚かさは去ることがない。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bray;   Mortar;   Wheat;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Mortar;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fools;   Punishments;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mortar;   Punishments;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Mortar;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Maktesh;   Mortar;   Punishments;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Pestle;   Proverbs, Book of;   Vessels and Utensils;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Mortar and Pestle;   Proverbs, Book of;   Wheat;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Mortar;   Zephaniah, Prophecy of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Obsolete or obscure words in the english av bible;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mortar,;   Punishments;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Pestle;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Mill;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bray;   Fool;   Meals;   Mortar;   Pestle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Metals;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 23:35, Exodus 12:30, Exodus 14:5, Exodus 15:9, 2 Chronicles 28:22, 2 Chronicles 28:23, Isaiah 1:5, Jeremiah 5:3, Jeremiah 44:15, Jeremiah 44:16, Revelation 16:10, Revelation 16:11

Reciprocal: Judges 16:4 - he loved 1 Samuel 19:21 - sent messengers 1 Kings 22:18 - Did I not tell 2 Kings 1:13 - he sent again 2 Chronicles 24:14 - to offer withal Psalms 14:1 - fool Psalms 85:8 - folly Proverbs 10:13 - a rod Proverbs 14:24 - foolishness Proverbs 17:10 - General Proverbs 26:3 - General Jeremiah 13:23 - Ethiopian Hosea 7:10 - and they Mark 7:22 - foolishness

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle,.... As the manna was, Numbers 11:8; and as wheat beat and bruised in a mortar, or ground in a mill, retains its own nature; so, let a wicked man be used ever so roughly or severely, by words, admonitions, reproofs, and counsels; or by deeds, by corrections and punishment, by hard words or blows, whether publicly or privately; in the midst of the congregation, as the Targum and Syriac version; or of the sanhedrim and council, as the Septuagint and Arabic versions;

[yet] will not his foolishness depart from him; his inbred depravity and natural malignity and folly will not remove, nor will he leave his course of sinning he has been accustomed to; he is stricken in vain, he will revolt more and more, Isaiah 1:5. Anaxarchus the philosopher was ordered by the tyrant Nicocreon to be pounded to death in a stone mortar with iron pestles q, and which he endured with great patience.

q Laert. in Vit. Anaxarch. l. 9. p. 668.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 not thus to be got rid of. It sticks to him to the last; all discipline, teaching, experience seem to be wasted on him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 27:22. Though thou shouldest bray a fool — Leaving all other conjectures, of which commentators are full, I would propose, that this is a metaphor taken from pounding metallic ores in very large mortars, such as are still common in the East, in order that, when subjected to the action of the fire, the metal may be the more easily separated from the ore. However you may try, by precept or example, or both, to instruct a stupid man, your labour is lost; his foolishness cannot be separated from him. You may purge metals of all their dross; but you cannot purge the fool of his folly.


 
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