Proverbs 26:12-14

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹²Do you see persons wise in their own eyes?
    There is more hope for fools than for them.
¹³The lazy person says, ‘There is a lion in the road!
    There is a lion in the streets!’
¹⁴As a door turns on its hinges,
    so does a lazy person in bed.

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