◄ Proverbs 26:15 ►
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Good News Translation
Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouths.

New Revised Standard Version
The lazy person buries a hand in the dish, and is too tired to bring it back to the mouth.

Contemporary English Version
Some of us are so lazy that we won't lift a hand to feed ourselves.

New American Bible
The sluggard buries a hand in the dish, too weary to lift it to the mouth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The slothful hideth his hand under his armpit, and it grieveth him to turn it to his mouth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The slothful hideth his hand under his armpit, and it grieveth him to turn it to his mouth.

slothful

Proverbs 19:24 The slothful hideth his hand under his armpit, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth.

it grieveth him or he is weary

Context
Similitudes and Instructions
…14As the door turneth upon its hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed. 15The slothful hideth his hand under his armpit, and it grieveth him to turn it to his mouth.16The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that speak sentences.…
Cross References
Genesis 6:6
It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,

Proverbs 19:24
The slothful hideth his hand under his armpit, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth.

Proverbs 26:14
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