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22 If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle along with[a] the crushed grain,
    it will not drive folly from upon him.
23 You will surely know the condition[b] of your flock;
    your heart[c] attends to the herds.
24 For riches are not forever,
    nor a crown for generation after generation.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:22 Or “in the midst of”
  2. Proverbs 27:23 Literally “faces”
  3. Proverbs 27:23 Or “mind”