2 Peter 2:22; Exodus 8:15; Matthew 12:45
The Book of Fools. A section containing a series of synthetic couplets dealing with folly (except Proverbs 26:2 ). The text is unusually corrupt a...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 hi...
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; [s...
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...
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,...
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 hatefu...
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 ret...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 26:3 . To our English ideas, the whip and bridle are assigned respectively to the wrong animals, but it must be remembe...
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...
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...
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. The accustomed course resumed Dost thou ever raise thy little dam across the...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 26:1-20 Certain proverbs concerning the fool ( kesil ), with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Prov...
Concerning Fools and Sluggards
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly, repeating it again and again, not aware of the loathsomeness of his action. cf Pro...
11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.e