Proverbs 26:11

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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 a worse state 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 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 cleverer to shoot arrows at every passer-by 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.