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Proverbs 27:21-22
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21 (A)The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,
And a man is valued by what others say of him.

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

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Proverbs 27:21-22
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21 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,(A)
    but people are tested by their praise.

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

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