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20 Hell and decay are never satisfied,
    and a person’s eyes are never satisfied.

21 The crucible is for refining silver and the smelter for gold,
    but a person is tested by the praise given to him.
22 If you crush a stubborn fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,[a]
    even then his stupidity will not leave him.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:22 Hebrew meaning uncertain.

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