Proverbs 26:11

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Exodus 8:15

Then Pharaoh, seeing that relief had been provided, hardened his own heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had instructed.

Proverbs 23:35

And you will say: "They have beaten me, but I did not feel pain. They have dragged me, and I did not realize it. When will I awaken and find more wine?"

Proverbs 26:10

Judgment determines cases. And whoever imposes silence on the foolish mitigates anger.

Proverbs 27:22

Even if you were to crush the foolish with a mortar, as when a pestle strikes over pearled barley, his foolishness would not be taken from him.

Isaiah 28:8

For all the tables have been filled with vomit and filth, so much so that there was no place left.

Matthew 12:45

Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and live there. And in the end, the man becomes worse than he was at first. So, too, shall it be with this most wicked generation."

2 Peter 2:22

For the truth of the proverb has happened to them: The dog has returned to his own vomit, and the washed sow has returned to her wallowing in the mud.