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How long will you lie down, lazy?
    When will you rise up from your sleep?

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(A)How long will you lie there, (B)O sluggard?
    When will you arise from your sleep?

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26 Like vinegar to the tooth and like smoke to the eyes,
    thus is the lazy to one who employs[a] him.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 10:26 Or “sends”

26 Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
    so is the sluggard to those who send him.

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19 The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns,[a]
    but the path of the upright is a highway.

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  1. Proverbs 15:19 Hebrew “thorn”

19 The way of (A)a sluggard is like a hedge of (B)thorns,
    but the path of the upright is (C)a level highway.

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24 A lazy person buries his hand in the dish,
    and even to his mouth he will not bring it back.

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24 (A)The sluggard buries his hand in (B)the dish
    and will not even bring it back to his mouth.

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The lazy person will not plow in season;
    he will expect at the harvest, but there will be nothing.

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(A)The sluggard does not plow in the autumn;
    (B)he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

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25 The craving of a lazy person will kill him,
    for his hands refuse to work.[a]
26 All day[b] he craves a craving,
    but the righteous will give and not hold back.

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  1. Proverbs 21:25 Or “make”
  2. Proverbs 21:26 Literally “All the day”

25 The desire of (A)the sluggard kills him,
    for his hands refuse to labor.
26 All day long he craves and craves,
    but the righteous (B)gives and does not hold back.

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13 A lazy person says “A lion in the street!
    In the middle of the highway, I shall be killed!”

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13 (A)The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!
    I shall be killed in the streets!”

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30 I passed by the field of a lazy person,
    and over the vineyard of a person lacking sense;[a]
31 and behold, it was overgrown—all of it was covered with thorns, its surface with nettles,
    and its stone wall[b] was broken down.
32 Then I myself saw and my heart[c] considered;
    I looked, and I took hold of instruction:
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands for rest,
34 and your poverty will come running,
    and your lack like an armed warrior.

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  1. Proverbs 24:30 Literally “heart”
  2. Proverbs 24:31 Literally “a wall of his/its stones”
  3. Proverbs 24:32 Or “mind”

30 (A)I passed by the field of a sluggard,
    by the vineyard of a man (B)lacking sense,
31 and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns;
    the ground was covered with nettles,
    and its stone (C)wall was broken down.
32 Then I saw and (D)considered it;
    I looked and received instruction.
33 (E)A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest,
34 and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
    and want like an armed man.

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13 A lazy person says “A lion is in the road!
    A lion among the streets!”
14 The door turns on its hinge,
    and a lazy person on his bed.
15 A lazy person buries his hands in the dish;
    he is too tired to return it to his mouth.
16 A lazy person is wiser in his eyes
    than seven who answer discreetly.

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13 (A)The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
    There is a lion in the streets!”
14 As a door turns on its hinges,
    so does a sluggard on his bed.
15 (B)The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
    it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth.
16 The sluggard is (C)wiser in his own eyes
    (D)than seven men who can answer sensibly.

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