2 Peter 2:22
20 If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.
21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.
Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”
- ASV
- It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.
- DARBY
- But that [word] of the true proverb has happened to them: [The] dog [has] turned back to his own vomit; and, [The] washed sow to [her] rolling in mud.
- BLB
- The thing of the true proverb has happened to them: “A dog having returned to [its] own vomit,” and, “A sow, having washed, to [her] rolling place in the mire.”
- ÅB
- Det er gått dem som det sanne ordtaket sier: «Hunden vender tilbake til sitt eget spy, og den nybadete grisen velter seg i gjørmen.»
- OTB
- Dette vises av det sanne ordtaket:
"En hund vender tilbake til sitt eget spy,"
og,
"En purke, etter å ha blitt vasket, vender tilbake til å velte seg i sølen." - B1930
- Det er gått dem som det sanne ordsprog sier: Hunden vender sig om til sitt eget spy, og den vaskede so velter sig i søle.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 26:11
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
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