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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Proverbs 26:11

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 and madness of sinners, who having smarted for their sins, and been forced to forsake them far a time, do afterwards return to the commission of them.

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See also Proverbs 26:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 26:11. _AS A DOG RETURNETH TO HIS VOMIT_] 2 Peter 2:22....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 26 CONCERNING THE FOOL AND THE SLUGGARD Eleven times we meet the word fool in this chapter. Three different words are used in the Hebrew for fool. The first is “avil” which signifies weakness....

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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 opposite use of s...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AS. DOG, &C. Quoted in 2 Peter 2:22. RETURNETH. repeateth. Illustrations: Pharaoh (Exodus 9:27); Ahab (1 Kings 21:27; 1 Kings 22:6

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    So _a fool returneth to_ Rather, _So is_ A FOOL THAT REPEATETH, R.V.; _iterat_, Vulg. The Heb. word is not the same as in the first clause of the verse. Comp. on the proverb 2 Peter 2:22. Proverbs 26...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 26:9-19 9. As a thorn that goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, So is a parable in the mouth of fools. 10. As an archer that woundeth all, So is he that hireth a fool and he that...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. AS A DOG RETURNETH TO HIS VOMIT - quoted in , and so stamped with inspired authority. As a dog swallows again that which he has v...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FOOLS. SLUGGARDS. TALKERS 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    You cannot cure a fool. A fool is an evil person. He will repeat his evil behaviour. This is terrible. You cannot change this man. Only God can stop the fool’s evil behaviour. A fool is not like a si...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 26 V1 Snow should not fall in summer. Rain should not fall during the harvest....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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 especially...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כְּ֭ כֶלֶב שָׁ֣ב עַל ־קֵאֹ֑ו כְּ֝סִ֗יל שֹׁונֶ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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 accord...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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. In this group of proverbs the fool is the subject. The...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Dog. This is the only animal which is known to do so. St. Peter uses this comparison to deter any from renouncing the faith; as the Fathers do, to shew the misery attending a relapse. Septuagint here...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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?...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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, t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 enou...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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 Proverbs 2 Peter 2:22....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CONCERNING FOOLS AND SLUGGARDS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    RETURNETH TO HIS FOLLY: _ Heb._ iterateth his folly...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 26:11 dog H3611 returns H7725 (H8804) vomit H6892 fool H3684 repeats H8138 (H8802) folly...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson, Proverbs 26:20-25.) God gives us two ears and two eyes, but only one tongue. We should therefore see and hear mor...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 wast...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 joys...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 streamlet, and think to dry the bed below? Hast thou...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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 spirited an...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 26:1 Certain proverbs concerning the fool (_kesil_),_ _with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22)....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now to Proverbs 26:1-28 to begin our study this evening. The first twelve verses of Proverbs 26:1-28 we trust doesn't apply to any of you tonight, because it's sort of addressed towards...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 2:22; Exodus 8:15; Matthew 12:45...

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