Proverbs 26:11
As a dog turneth back to its vomit, [so] a fool repeateth his folly.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
In Context
10A master roughly worketh every one: he both hireth the fool and hireth passers-by.
12Hast thou seen a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
Cross References
Isaiah 28:8For all tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no [more] place.
2 Peter 2:22But that [word] of the true proverb has happened to them: [The] dog [has] turned back to his own vomit; and, [The] washed sow to [her] rolling in mud.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:11
The Conduct of Fools. 10 The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. Our translation gives this verse a different reading in the text and in the margin; and accordingly it expresses either, 1. The equity of a good God. The Master, or Lord (so Rab signifies), or, as we read it, The great God that formed all things at first, and still governs them in infinite wisdom, renders to every man according to his work. He rewards the fool, who sinned through ignorance, who knew… Read the whole commentary →