Proverbs 26:14
A lazy person turns in bed like a door turns on its hinge.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
In Context
13Lazy people are the ones who say, “There's a lion on the road—a lion running around the streets!”
15Lazy people put their hands in a dish, but are too tired to lift the food to their mouths.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:24Hard work brings leadership, but laziness brings slavery.
Proverbs 24:33You may say, “Please, just a little more sleep, a little longer snooze, a little more folding of the arms to rest”—
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:14
The Disgrace of Slothfulness. 13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. When a man talks foolishly we say, He talks idly; for none betray their folly more than those who are idle and go about to excuse themselves in their idleness. As men's folly makes them slothful, so their slothfulness makes them foolish. Observe, 1. What the slothful man really dreads. He dreads the way, the streets, the place where work is to be done and a journey to be gone; he hates business, hates… Read the whole commentary →