Proverbs 26:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The lazy person is wiser in self-esteem than seven who can answer discreetly.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit Than seven men that can render a reason.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes and conceit than seven men who can render a reason and answer discreetly.

American Standard Version (1901)

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit Than seven men that can render a reason.

Common English Bible

Lazy people think they are wiser than seven people who answer sensibly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

The lazy one seems wiser to himself than seven men speaking judgments.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that speak sentences.

Proverbs 26:16 Références croisées

Proverbs 12:15

Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to advice.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see people wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.

Proverbs 27:11

Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer whoever reproaches me.

Proverbs 6:6

Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways and be wise.

1 Peter 3:15

but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you,