Proverbs 26:11

Easy To Read Version

A dog eats food. Then he gets sick and vomits. Then the dog eats that food again. It is the same with a foolish person. He does the same foolish things again and again.

Cross References

Exodus 8:15

Pharaoh saw that they were free of the frogs, and he again became stubborn. Pharaoh did not do what Moses and Aaron had asked him to do. This happened just like the Lord had said.

Proverbs 23:35

You will say, “They hit me but I never felt it. They beat me but I don’t remember it. Now I can’t wake up. I need another drink.”

Proverbs 26:10

Hiring a fool or some stranger passing by is dangerous—you don’t know who might get hurt.

Proverbs 27:22

You can grind a fool to powder, and still you will not force the foolishness out of him.

Isaiah 28:8

Every table is covered with vomit. There is not a clean place anywhere.\par

Matthew 12:45

Then the evil spirit goes out and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself. Then all the spirits go into that person and live there. And that person has even more trouble than he had before. It is the same way with the evil people that live today.”

2 Peter 2:22

What those people did is like this true saying: “When a dog vomits (throws up), he comes back to his vomit.” {\cf2\super [10]} And, “After a pig is washed, the pig goes back and rolls in the mud again.”