Proverbs 27:21-23

New King James Version

^21 (A)The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,
And a man is valued by what others say of him.

^22 (B)Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

²³ Be diligent to know the state of your ^(C)flocks,
And attend to your herds;