Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a fool who reverts to his folly.
But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.
“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 will seek another drink.”
Like an archer who wounds everybody is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard.
Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, but the folly will not be driven out.
All tables are covered with filthy vomit; no place is clean.
Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and live there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So will it be also with this evil generation.”
It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns back to its own vomit,” and, “The sow is washed only to wallow in the mud.”