Proverbs 22:13
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13 The lazy person says, “There is a lion outside!
I shall be killed in the streets!”(A)
Proverbs 26:13-16
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13 The lazy person says, “There is a lion in the road!
There is a lion in the streets!”(A)
14 As a door turns on its hinges,
so does a lazy person in bed.
15 The lazy person buries a hand in the dish
and is too tired to bring it back to the mouth.(B)
16 The lazy person is wiser in self-esteem
than seven who can answer discreetly.
Proverbs 15:19
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19 The way of the lazy is overgrown with thorns,
but the path of the upright is a level highway.(A)
Numbers 13:32-33
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32 So they brought to the Israelites an unfavorable report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land that we have gone through as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great size.(A) 33 There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakites come from the Nephilim), and to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”(B)
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