Proverbs 26:13-22

English Standard Version Anglicised

^13 (A)The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
    There is a lion in the streets!”
¹⁴ As a door turns on its hinges,
    so does a sluggard on his bed.
^15 (B)The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
    it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth.
¹⁶ The sluggard is ^(C)wiser in his own eyes
    ^(D)than seven men who can answer sensibly.
¹⁷ Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own
    is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.
¹⁸ Like a madman who throws ^(E)firebrands, arrows, and death
¹⁹ is the man who deceives his neighbour
    and says, “I am only joking!”
²⁰ For lack of wood the fire goes out,
    and where there is no ^(F)whisperer, ^(G)quarrelling ceases.
²¹ As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire,
    so is ^(H)a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
^22 (I)The words of ^(J)a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
    they go down into the inner parts of the body.