13 The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside!(A)
    I’ll be killed in the public square!”

14 The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit;(B)
    a man who is under the Lord’s wrath falls into it.(C)

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.(D)

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13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.

15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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