Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. Proverbs 27:22
Correction by itself works nothing
for the fool that despises it.
Yes, the rod will drive foolishness from the heart of a child (Proverbs 22:15), but when the child becomes a man in strength of habit, and stubbornness of will, a hardness will take hold. Pharoah, Ahaz, the generation of Noah - all were brayed in the mortar, yet all clung to their foolishness.
If a rock be broken, the broken pieces
will retain their hardness.
Likewise, a man may be crushed,
yet not humbled.
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