Proverbs 27:20-22

New International Reader's Version

²⁰ Death and the Grave are never satisfied.
    People’s eyes are never satisfied either.

²¹ Fire tests silver, and heat tests gold.
    But people are tested by the praise they receive.

²² 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.