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Proverbs 26:14

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26:14 Like 1  a door that turns on its hinges, 2 

so a sluggard turns 3  on his bed.

1 tn The comparative “like” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied from context in the translation.

2 sn The sluggard is too lazy to get out of bed – although he would probably rationalize this by saying that he is not at his best in the morning. The humor of the verse is based on an analogy with a door – it moves back and forth on its hinges but goes nowhere. Like the door to the wall, the sluggard is “hinged” to his bed (e.g., Prov 6:9-10; 24:33).

3 tn The term “turns” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation from the parallelism.



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