Proverbs 26:16
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English Standard Version
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.

New American Standard Bible
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who can give a discreet answer.

King James Bible
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In his own eyes, a slacker is wiser than seven men who can answer sensibly.

International Standard Version
The lazy person is wiser in his own opinion than seven men who can give an appropriate response.

NET Bible
The sluggard is wiser in his own estimation than seven people who respond with good sense.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The lazy one is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who make sense.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A lazy person thinks he is wiser than seven people who give a sensible answer.

King James 2000 Bible
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men that can answer reasonably.

American King James Version
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

American Standard Version
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit Than seven men that can render a reason.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that speak sentences.

Darby Bible Translation
A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men that answer discreetly.

English Revised Version
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

Webster's Bible Translation
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

World English Bible
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

Young's Literal Translation
Wiser is the slothful in his own eyes, Than seven men returning a reason.
Lexicon
The sluggard
`atsel  (aw-tsale')
indolent -- slothful, sluggard.
is wiser
chakam  (khaw-kawm')
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful) -- cunning (man), subtil, (un-), wise(hearted), man).
in his own conceit
`ayin  (ah'-yin)
an eye; by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
than seven men
sheba`  (sheh'-bah)
a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
that can render
shuwb  (shoob)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively
a reason
ta`am  (tah'-am)
a taste, i.e. (figuratively) perception; by implication, intelligence; transitively, a mandate
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