Proverbs 26:11
Good News Translation
A fool doing some stupid thing a second time is like a dog going back to its vomit.

New Revised Standard Version
Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a fool who reverts to his folly.

Contemporary English Version
Dogs return to eat their vomit, just as fools repeat their foolishness.

New American Bible
As dogs return to their vomit, so fools repeat their folly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly.

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Exodus 8:15 And Pharao seeing that rest was given, hardened his own heart, and did not hear them, as the Lord had commanded.

Matthew 12:45 Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.

2 Peter 2:22 For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit; and: The sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

returneth to his folly

Context
Similitudes and Instructions
10Judgment determineth causes: and he that putteth a fool to silence, appeaseth anger. 11As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly.12Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him.…
Cross References
2 Peter 2:22
For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit; and: The sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Exodus 8:15
And Pharao seeing that rest was given, hardened his own heart, and did not hear them, as the Lord had commanded.

Proverbs 23:35
And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake and find wine again?

Proverbs 26:10
Judgment determineth causes: and he that putteth a fool to silence, appeaseth anger.

Proverbs 27:22
Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.

Proverbs 26:10
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