Proverbs 26:11
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
KJV
Sicut canis qui revertitur ad vomitum suum, sic imprudens qui iterat stultitiam suam.
Vulgate
ὥσπερ κύων ὅταν ἐπέλθῃ ἐπὶ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ ἔμετον καὶ μισητὸς γένηται, οὕτως ἄφρων τῇ ἑαυτοῦ κακίᾳ ἀναστρέψας ἐπὶ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἁμαρτίαν. [1] ἔστιν αἰσχύνη ἐπάγουσα ἁμαρτίαν, καὶ ἔστιν αἰσχύνη δόξα καὶ χάρις.
LXX
As a dog that returneth to his vomit, So isa fool that repeateth his folly.
ASV
כְּ֭/כֶלֶב שָׁ֣ב עַל קֵא֑/וֹ כְּ֝סִ֗יל שׁוֹנֶ֥ה בְ/אִוַּלְתּֽ/וֹ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אִוֶּֽלֶת
'vlt
noun · 25×
וֹ
v
noun · 4×
וֹ
v
verb · 22×
כְּלָבִ֛ים
klbym
noun · 32×
כְּסִ֑יל
ksyl
noun · 69×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×
Intertextual echoes
Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.
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2Pet 2:22 · echo"But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire."Proverbs: a dog returns to its vomit — Peter on apostates
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Pet 2:22 — But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
- 2Pet 2:22 — But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
- Exod 8:15 — But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
- Isa 28:8 — For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
- Jer 34:11 — But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
- Matt 7:6 — Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
- Matt 12:45 — Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also
- Phil 3:2 — Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
- Prov 23:35 — They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.