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Brenton's Septuagint

Proverbs 26:11

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Dog (Sodomite?);   Fool;   Impenitence;   Quotations and Allusions;   Sin;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Folly;   Wisdom-Folly;   The Topic Concordance - Folly;   Foolishness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dog, the;   Fools;   Wicked, the, Are Compared to;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Fable;   Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Peter, Second Epistle of;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Proverbs ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prov'erbs, Book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Vomit;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fool;   Swine;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Apostasy and Apostates from Judaism;   Dog;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
As a dog returns to its vomit,so also a fool repeats his foolishness.
Hebrew Names Version
As a dog that returns to his vomit, So is a fool who repeats his folly.
King James Version
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
English Standard Version
Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.
New American Standard Bible
Like a dog that returns to its vomit, So is a fool who repeats his foolishness.
New Century Version
A fool who repeats his foolishness is like a dog that goes back to what it has thrown up.
Amplified Bible
Like a dog that returns to his vomit Is a fool who repeats his foolishness.
World English Bible
As a dog that returns to his vomit, So is a fool who repeats his folly.
Geneva Bible (1587)
As a dog turneth againe to his owne vomit, so a foole turneth to his foolishnes.
Legacy Standard Bible
Like a dog that returns to its vomitIs a fool who repeats his folly.
Berean Standard Bible
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
Contemporary English Version
Dogs return to eat their vomit, just as fools repeat their foolishness.
Complete Jewish Bible
Just as a dog returns to his vomit, a fool repeats his folly.
Darby Translation
As a dog turneth back to its vomit, [so] a fool repeateth his folly.
Easy-to-Read Version
Like a dog that returns to its vomit, a fool does the same foolish things again and again.
George Lamsa Translation
As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool that misbehaves in his folly.
Good News Translation
A fool doing some stupid thing a second time is like a dog going back to its vomit.
Lexham English Bible
Like a dog returning to his vomit is a fool reverting to his folly.
Literal Translation
As a dog that returns to his own vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Like as the dogg turneth agayne to his vomite, euen so a foole begynneth his foolishnesse agayne afresh.
American Standard Version
As a dog that returneth to his vomit, So is a fool that repeateth his folly.
Bible in Basic English
Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is a fool that repeateth his folly.
King James Version (1611)
As a dogge returneth to his vomite: so a foole returneth to his folly.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Like as the dogge turneth agayne to his owne vomite: euen so a foole beginneth his foolishnes agayne afreshe.
English Revised Version
As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is a fool that repeateth his folly.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As a dogge that turneth ayen to his spuyng; so is an vnprudent man, that rehersith his fooli.
Update Bible Version
As a dog that returns to his vomit, [So is] a fool that repeats his folly.
Webster's Bible Translation
As a dog returneth to his vomit, [so] a fool returneth to his folly.
New English Translation
Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
New King James Version
As a dog returns to his own vomit, So a fool repeats his folly.
New Living Translation
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness.
New Life Bible
A fool who does his foolish act again is like a dog that turns back to what he has thrown up.
New Revised Standard
Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a fool who reverts to his folly.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As, a dog, returneth onto his own vomit, a dullard, repeateth his folly.
Douay-Rheims Bible
As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly.
Revised Standard Version
Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool that repeats his folly.
Young's Literal Translation
As a dog hath returned to its vomit, A fool is repeating his folly.
THE MESSAGE
As a dog eats its own vomit, so fools recycle silliness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Like a dog that returns to its vomit Is a fool who repeats his folly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a dog: Exodus 8:15, Matthew 12:45, 2 Peter 2:22

returneth to his folly: Heb. iterateth his folly

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 23:18 - dog Judges 16:4 - he loved Proverbs 23:35 - I will Ecclesiastes 7:25 - know Isaiah 28:8 - General Jeremiah 34:11 - General Matthew 7:6 - that Philippians 3:2 - of dogs

Cross-References

Genesis 20:6
And God said to him in sleep, Yea, I knew that thou didst this with a pure heart, and I spared thee, so that thou shouldest not sin against me, therefore I suffered thee not to touch her.
Psalms 105:15
saying, Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm.
Proverbs 6:29
So is he that goes in to a married woman; he shall not be held guiltless, neither any one that touches her.
Zechariah 2:8
For thus saith the Lord Almighty; After the glory has he sent me to the nations that spoiled you: for he that touches you is as one that touches the apple of his eye.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As a dog returneth to his vomit,.... Who being sick with what he has eaten, casts it up again, and afterwards returns unto it and licks it up;

[so] a fool returneth to his folly, or "repeats" a it, time after time, many times, as Ben Melech; or a wicked man turns to his wickedness, who, having had some qualms upon his conscience for sin, for a while forsakes it; but that fit being over, and he forgetting all his former horror and uneasiness, returns to his old course of life: a wicked man is here compared to a dog, as he is elsewhere for his impudence and voraciousness in sinning; and the filthiness of sin is expressed by the vomit of a dog, than which nothing is more nauseous and loathsome; and the apostasy of the sinner, from an external course of righteousness into open profaneness is signified by the return of this creature to it. This is said to be a "true proverb", 2 Peter 2:22, where it is quoted and applied.

a שונה "qui iterat", Tigurine version, Michaelis; "iterans", Montanus, Mercerus, Cocceius, Gejerus; "duplicans", Schultens.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 26:11. As a dog returneth to his vomit2 Peter 2:22.


 
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