Proverbs 26:11

New King James Version

As a dog returns to his own vomit, So a fool repeats his folly.

Cross References

Exodus 8:15

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

Proverbs 23:35

“They have struck me, but I was not hurt; They have beaten me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake, that I may seek another drink?”

Proverbs 26:10

The great God who formed everything Gives the fool his hire and the transgressor his wages.

Proverbs 27:22

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

Isaiah 28:8

For all tables are full of vomit and filth; No place is clean.

Matthew 12:45

Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”

2 Peter 2:22

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”