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Proverbs 26:15-17
New Catholic Bible
Proverbs 26:15-17
New Catholic Bible
15 One who is lazy will dip his hand into the dish,
but he is too lazy to lift it to his mouth.[a]
16 The idler considers himself to be more wise
than seven men who can offer a sensible reply.
How Human Relations Are Perverted[b]
17 Like one who lifts up a stray dog by the ears
is he who meddles in another person’s quarrel.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 26:15 This verse is almost identical to Prov 19:24.
- Proverbs 26:17 Once anger has allowed it to come to the fore, when will the demon of divisiveness, falsehood, and calumny come to a halt? As fine psychologists, the ancients had noticed how such tendencies deaden the human heart in the manner of a bad ineradicable herb.
