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25 The desire of sluggards will slay them,
    for their hands refuse to work.[a]

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  1. 21:25 Desire, or appetite, is the impulse toward food and drink (see Ps 42:3) which spurs animals and human beings into action. But sluggards cannot lift hand to mouth; they bury their hand in the dish (19:24), and so their appetite is thwarted.

25 Lazy people who refuse to work are only killing themselves;

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25 The craving of the lazy person is fatal,
    for lazy hands refuse to labor.

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25 The (A)desire of the [a]lazy one puts him to death,
For his hands refuse to work;

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  1. Proverbs 21:25 Lit idle

25 The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him,(A)
    because his hands refuse to work.

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