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13 A lazy person stays in his house.
    He says, ‘There is a lion outside in the street!
    If I go out, it will kill me!’
14 The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep hole.
    If you make the Lord angry, you will fall into it!
15 Children love to do foolish things.
    To stop them, you must warn and punish them.

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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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