Proverbs 26:11

Modern English Version

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.

Cross References

Exodus 8:15

But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

Proverbs 23:35

“They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.”

Proverbs 26:10

Like an archer who wounds all so is he who hires the fool or the passerby.

Proverbs 27:22

Though you grind a fool in the mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.

Isaiah 28:8

For all the tables are full of vomit and filthiness so that there is no clean place.

Matthew 12:45

Then it goes and brings with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it be also with this evil generation.”

2 Peter 2:22

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog returns to his own vomit,” and “the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mud.”