'Dogs' in the Bible

"Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor throw your pearls to the swine; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and then turn and attack you.

"It is not right," He said, "to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

"Be it so, Sir," she said, "for even the dogs eat the scraps which fall from their masters' tables."

"Let the children first eat all they want," He said; "it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

"True, Sir," she replied, "and yet the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps."

covered with sores and longing to make a full meal off the scraps flung on the floor from the rich man's table. Nay, the dogs, too, used to come and lick his sores.

Beware of 'the dogs,' the bad workmen, the self-mutilators.