Proverbs 27:20-22

International Children’s Bible

²⁰ People will never stop dying and being destroyed.
    In the same way, people will never stop wanting more than they have.

²¹ A hot furnace tests silver and gold.
    And people are tested by the praise they receive.

²² Even if you ground up a foolish person like grain in a bowl,
    you couldn’t remove his foolishness.