New Revised Standard Version
The lazy person is wiser in self-esteem than seven who can answer discreetly.

Contemporary English Version
A lazy person says, "I am smarter than everyone else."

New American Bible
In their own eyes sluggards are wiser than seven who answer with good judgment.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that speak sentences.

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that speak sentences.

Proverbs 26:12 Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him.

Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsels.

1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you.