Proverbs 26:11

Bible in Basic English 1965

Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.

Cross References

Exodus 8:15

But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he made his heart hard and did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

Proverbs 23:35

They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

Proverbs 26:10

Like an archer wounding all who go by, is a foolish man overcome by drink.

Proverbs 27:22

Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

Isaiah 28:8

For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.

Matthew 12:45

Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits worse than himself, and they go in and make it their living-place: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first. Even so will it be with this evil generation.

2 Peter 2:22

They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.