Proverbs 27:20-22

New International Version

²⁰ Death and Destruction^[a] are never satisfied,^(A)
    and neither are human eyes.^(B)

²¹ The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,^(C)
    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.