Proverbs 27:21-23

Jubilee Bible 2000

²¹ ¶ As the fining pot tries the silver and the furnace the gold; so the man is tried by the mouth of whoever praises him.

²² ¶ Though thou should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

²³ ¶ Be thou diligent to know the countenance of thy sheep, and put thy heart into thy herds.