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Proverbs 26:13-15
New Catholic Bible
Proverbs 26:13-15
New Catholic Bible
A Portrait of Idlers[a]
13 The idler says, “There is a lion in the road,
a lion in the middle of the street.”[b]
14 As a door turns on its hinges,
so does the idler on his bed.
15 One who is lazy will dip his hand into the dish,
but he is too lazy to lift it to his mouth.[c]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 26:13 The popular proverbs use sarcasm in their biting caricatures of idlers. The Book of Proverbs has collected numerous sayings about this subject (see note on Prov 6:6) and here others have been appended.
- Proverbs 26:13 See note on Prov 22:13.
- Proverbs 26:15 This verse is almost identical to Prov 19:24.
