Pro 26:11
As a dog returneth to his vomit, {so} a fool returneth to his folly. {returneth to his folly: Heb. iterateth his folly}
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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.
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 unto this wicked generation.
But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
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.
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.
For all tables are full of vomit {and} filthiness, {so that there is} no place {clean}.
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. {I felt...: Heb. I knew it not}
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.
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason {of things}, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness {and} madness: {I applied...: Heb. I and mine heart compassed}
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these {are} abomination unto the LORD thy God.
And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name {was} Delilah. {in...: or, by the brook}