Proverbs 26:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a fool who reverts to his folly.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ As a dog returneth to his vomit, So a fool returneth to his folly.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ As a dog that returneth to his vomit, So is a fool that repeateth his folly.

Common English Bible

¹¹ Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats foolish mistakes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Like a dog that returns to his vomit, so also is the imprudent who repeats his foolishness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly.

Proverbs 26:11 Cross References

Exodus 8:15

But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

Proverbs 23:35

“They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink.”

Proverbs 26:10

Like an archer who wounds everybody is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard.

Proverbs 27:22

Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, but the folly will not be driven out.

Isaiah 28:8

All tables are covered with filthy vomit; no place is clean.

Matthew 12:45

Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and live there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So will it be also with this evil generation.”

2 Peter 2:22

It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns back to its own vomit,” and, “The sow is washed only to wallow in the mud.”