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13 The sluggard says, “A lion is outside;(A)
    I might be slain in the street.”[a]
14 The mouth of the foreign woman is a deep pit;(B)
    whoever incurs the Lord’s anger will fall into it.
15 Folly is bound to the heart of a youth,
    but the rod of discipline will drive it out.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 22:13 To avoid the effort required for action, the sluggard exaggerates the difficulties that must be overcome.
  2. 22:15 Folly is attached to children as the husk is attached to the grain. “Rod” here, as in v. 8, seems to be the flail. Discipline is the process of winnowing away the folly.