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As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.
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Like one who grabs a stray dog by the ears is someone who rushes into a quarrel not their own.
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Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!
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Israel’s watchmen are blind, they all lack knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they lie around and dream, they love to sleep.
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They are dogs with mighty appetites; they never have enough. They are shepherds who lack understanding; they all turn to their own way, they seek their own gain.
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But whoever sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a person, and whoever offers a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever makes a grain offering is like one who presents pig’s blood, and whoever burns memorial incense is like one who worships an idol. They have chosen their own ways, and they delight in their abominations;
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“I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” declares the Lord, “the sword to kill and the dogs to drag away and the birds and the wild animals to devour and destroy.
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“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
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He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
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“Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”
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“First let the children eat all they want,” he told her, “for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
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“Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
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and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
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Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh.
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Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.”
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Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
