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Proverbs 19:24

24  yA gslothful man hideth his hand in his zbosom,

And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

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Proverbs 19:24 — The New International Version (NIV)

24 A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;

he will not even bring it back to his mouth!

Proverbs 19:24 — English Standard Version (ESV)

24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish

and will not even bring it back to his mouth.

Proverbs 19:24 — New Living Translation (NLT)

24 Lazy people take food in their hand

but don’t even lift it to their mouth.

Proverbs 19:24 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

24 A lazy man buries his hand in the bowl,

And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

Proverbs 19:24 — New Century Version (NCV)

24 Though the lazy person puts his hand in the dish,

he won’t lift the food to his mouth.

Proverbs 19:24 — American Standard Version (ASV)

24 The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish,

And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

Proverbs 19:24 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

24 A sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it to his mouth again.

Proverbs 19:24 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

24 A lazy person puts his fork in his food. 

He doesn’t even bring it back to his mouth. 

Proverbs 19:24 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

24 The slacker buries his hand in the bowl;

he doesn’t even bring it back to his mouth.

Proverbs 19:24 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

24 The lazy person buries a hand in the dish,

and will not even bring it back to the mouth.

Proverbs 19:24 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

24 A lazy person buries his hand in the dish,

and even to his mouth he will not bring it back.

Proverbs 19:24 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

24 A person who doesn’t want to work leaves his hand in the dish.

He won’t even bring it back up to his mouth!

Proverbs 19:24 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish,

But will not even bring it back to his mouth.


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