Proverbs 26:12-20

¹²I have seen a man who seemed to himself to be wise; but a fool had more hope than he.

¹³A sluggard when sent on a journey says, There is a lion in the ways, and there are murderers in the streets.

¹⁴As a door turns on the hinge, so does a sluggard on his bed.

¹⁵A sluggard having hid his hand in his bosom, will not be able to bring it up to his mouth.

¹⁶A sluggard seems to himself wiser than one who most satisfactorily brings back a message.

¹⁷As he that lays hold of a dog's tail, so is he that makes himself the champion of another's cause.

¹⁸As those who need correction put forth fair words to men, and he that first falls in with the proposal will be overthrown;

¹⁹so are all that lay wait for their own friends, and when they are discovered, say, I did it in jest.

²⁰With much wood fire increases; but where there is not a double-minded man, strife ceases.