“ As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.e ”
The Book of Fools. A section containing a series of synthetic couplets dealing with folly (except Proverbs 26:2 ). The text is unusually corrupt and defective. Proverbs 26:1 . For the opposit...
As. dog, &c. Quoted in 2 Peter 2:22 . returneth . repeateth. Illustrations: Pharaoh ( Exodus 9:27-34 ); Ahab ( 1 Kings 21:27 ; 1 Kings 22:6-8 ); Herod ( Mark 6:20-27 ).
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. As a dog returneth to his vomit - See note on 2 Peter 2:22 .
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. As a dog returneth to his vomit - quoted in 2 Peter 2:22 , and so stamped with inspired authority. As a dog swallows again...
Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.
So a fool returneth to his folly. — Though he knows it to be folly, and ruinous to him: but vice has become to him a second nature, and he cannot, even if he would, escape from it. This is especial...
CHAPTER 27 THE FOOL "As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool…A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools. Answer not a fool ac...
Verse Proverbs 26:2 . Therefore, if the heart knows that a curse is unjust it may rest in the certainty that it cannot harm. Verses Proverbs 26:3-12 . In this group of proverbs the fool is the su...
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?...
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...
As a dog returneth to his vomit, [so] a fool returneth to his folly. Ver. 11. As a dog returneth to his vomit. ] A homely comparison, able to make a true Christian ready to lay up all, but good en...
THIS SECONDCHAPTER of the series is clearly the Exodus section, the work of the enemy manifesting itself in various forms of opposition to the truth, beginning with foolishness and ending with hatred...
11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. See here, 1. What an abominable thing sin is, and how hateful sometimes it is made to appear, even to the sinn...
As a dog returneth to his vomit, to lick up that which he had lately vomited, forgetting how burdensome and vexatious it was to him, so a fool returneth to his folly; such like is the impudence a...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 26:3 . To our English ideas, the whip and bridle are assigned respectively to the wrong animals, but it must be remembered that the Eastern ass is often quite as spirite...
Proverbs 26:1 . As snow in summer, which beats down the fruits; and as rain in harvest, which causes the corn to shoot in the ear; so is honour incongruous to a fool. He shames his laurels, he w...
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back. Aspects of a fool Sin is folly. It sacrifices the spiritual for the material, the temporal for the eternal, the pure j...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 26:1-20 Certain proverbs concerning the fool ( kesil ), with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22 ). Proverbs 26:1 As snow in summe...
Concerning Fools and Sluggards
2 Peter 2:22 ; Exodus 8:15 ; Matthew 12:45