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Proverbs 26:14-20 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

14. A door turns on its hinges,but a lazy personjust turns over in bed.

15. Some of us are so lazythat we won't lift a handto feed ourselves.

16. A lazy person says,“I am clevererthan everyone else.”

17. It's better to take holdof a mad dog by the earsthan to take partin someone else's argument.

18. It's no crazier to shootsharp and flaming arrows

19. than to cheat someone and say,“I was only fooling!”

20. Where there is no fuela fire goes out;where there is no gossiparguments come to an end.

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