Proverbs 26:11

Modern King James Version

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

Cross References

Exodus 8:15

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

Proverbs 23:35

saying, They struck me; I was not sick; they beat me, but I did not know it. When I awaken, I will add more. I will seek it again.

Proverbs 26:10

Great is the Former of all, but he who hires a fool is like one who hires one passing by.

Proverbs 27:22

Though you should pound a fool in a bowl with a bar in the midst of wheat, his foolishness will not depart from him.

Isaiah 28:8

For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness; no place is clean.

Matthew 12:45

Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and live there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so it also shall be to this evil generation.

2 Peter 2:22

But the word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog turning to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to wallowing in the mire.