Dog

But among all the Israelites, not even a dog will snarl at man or beast.’ Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

So Gideon brought the men down to the water, and the LORD said to him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues like a dog from those who kneel to drink.”

“Am I a dog,” he said to David, “that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?

Abner was furious over Ish-bosheth’s accusation. “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah?” he asked. “All this time I have been loyal to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends. I have not delivered you into the hand of David, but now you accuse me of wrongdoing with this woman!

Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”

Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head!”

“But how could your servant, a mere dog, do such a monstrous thing?” said Hazael. And Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”

As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

Like one who grabs a dog by the ears is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.

There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.

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.”