15 (A)Laziness casts one into a deep sleep,
And an idle person will (B)suffer hunger.

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15 Laziness induces deep sleep,
and a lazy person will go hungry.(A)

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15 Laziness brings on deep sleep,
    and the shiftless go hungry.(A)

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24 (A)A lazy man buries his hand in the [a]bowl,
And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:24 LXX, Syr. bosom; Tg., Vg. armpit

24 The slacker buries his hand in the bowl;
he doesn’t even bring it back to his mouth!(A)

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24 A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
    he will not even bring it back to his mouth!(A)

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