Proverbs 26:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹¹ As a dog that returneth to his vomit, So is a fool that repeateth 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 respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken.

Proverbs 23:35

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

Proverbs 26:10

As an archer that woundeth all, So is he that hireth the fool and he that hireth them that pass by.

Proverbs 27:22

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among bruised corn, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

Isaiah 28:8

For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

Matthew 12:45

Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this evil generation.

2 Peter 2:22

It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.