Proverbs 26:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹¹ Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool that repeats his folly.

More versions

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; 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 he who hires a passing fool or drunkard.

Proverbs 27:22

Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.

Isaiah 28:8

For all tables are full of vomit, no place is without filthiness.

Matthew 12:45

Then he goes and brings with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So shall 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 his own vomit, and the sow is washed only to wallow in the mire.