Proverbs 26:14-18

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;