Proverbs 26:11

Contemporary English Version 1995

Dogs return to eat their vomit, just as fools repeat their foolishness.

Cross References

2 Peter 2:22

What happened to them is just like the true saying, “A dog will come back to lick up its own vomit. A pig that has been washed will roll in the mud.”

Matthew 12:45

it goes off and finds seven other evil spirits even worse than itself. They all come and make their home there, and the person ends up in worse shape than before. That's how it will be with you evil people of today.

Exodus 8:15

But when the king saw that things were now better, he again did just as the Lord had said he would and stubbornly refused to listen to Moses and Aaron.

Proverbs 23:35

You will be bruised all over, without even remembering how it all happened. And you will lie awake asking, “When will morning come, so I can drink some more?”

Proverbs 26:10

It's no smarter to shoot arrows at every passerby than it is to hire a bunch of worthless nobodies.

Proverbs 27:22

No matter how hard you beat a fool, you can't pound out the foolishness.

Isaiah 28:8

Their tables are covered, completely covered, with their stinking vomit.