Good News Bible

Proverbs 26:13-21 Good News Bible (GNB)

13. Why don't lazy people ever get out of the house? What are they afraid of? Lions?

14. Lazy people turn over in bed. They get no farther than a door swinging on its hinges.

15. Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouths.

16. A lazy person will think he is more intelligent than seven people who can give good reasons for their opinions.

17. Getting involved in an argument that is none of your business is like going down the street and grabbing a dog by the ears.

18-19. Someone who misleads someone else and then claims that he was only joking is like a mad person playing with a deadly weapon.

20. Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, quarrelling stops.

21. Charcoal keeps the embers glowing, wood keeps the fire burning, and troublemakers keep arguments alive.