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13 A slow man shall say (A lazy person shall say), A lion is withoutforth; I shall be slain in the midst of the streets.

14 The mouth of an alien woman is a deep ditch; he to whom the Lord is wroth shall fall into it. (The mouth of a woman whom thou hast been intimate with, but who is not thy wife, is a deep ditch; he to whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.)

15 Folly is bound together in the heart of a child; and a rod of chastising shall drive it away. (Foolishness is bound up in a child’s heart, but the rod of discipline shall drive it away.)

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13 The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside!(A)
    I’ll be killed in the public square!”

14 The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit;(B)
    a man who is under the Lord’s wrath falls into it.(C)

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.(D)

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