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。

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。

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.

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.

耶和華啊，你的眼目不是在尋找誠實嗎？你擊打他們，他們卻不傷慟；你摧毀他們，他們仍不領受管教。他們使臉剛硬過於磐石，不肯回頭。

說：「人擊打我，但我未受傷，重擊我，我不覺得。我幾時清醒，還要再去尋酒。」

你們為甚麼屢次悖逆，繼續受責打呢？你們已經滿頭疼痛，全心發昏；

法老和他眾臣僕，以及所有的埃及人，都在夜間起來了。在埃及有大大的哀號，因為沒有一家不死人的。

這亞哈斯王在急難的時候，越發得罪耶和華。他向那攻擊他的大馬士革的神明獻祭，說：「因為亞蘭王的神明幫助他們，我也要向這些神明獻祭，好讓它們幫助我。」但那些神明卻使他和全以色列敗亡。

那些知道自己妻子向別神燒香的男人，與站在那裏的一大羣婦女，就是住埃及地巴特羅所有的百姓，回答耶利米說：「論到你奉耶和華的名向我們所說的話，我們必不聽從。

有人報告埃及王說：「百姓逃跑了！」法老和他的臣僕對百姓改變了心意，說：「我們放以色列人走，不再服事我們，我們怎麼會做這種事呢？」

仇敵說：『我要追趕，我要追上，我要分擄物，在他們身上滿足我的心願，我要拔刀，親手毀滅他們。』

第五位天使把碗傾倒在獸的座位上，獸的國就變成黑暗。人因疼痛而咬自己的舌頭；又因所受的疼痛和生的瘡，就褻瀆天上的上帝，也沒有為他們的行為悔改。