Prov.27.22

Pound on a fool all you like--you can't pound out foolishness.

Prov.27.22

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

Prov.27.22

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

Prov.27.22

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