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Proverbs 26:14

Just as a door turns on its hinges, so a lazybones turns back over in bed.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Door;   House;   Idleness;   Slothfulness;   The Topic Concordance - Laziness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Beds;   Idleness and Sloth;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Doors;   Hinge;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   House;   Proverbs, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hinge;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Door;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Door;   Hinge;   House;   Proverb;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Door and Door-Post;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A door turns on its hinges,and a slacker, on his bed.
Hebrew Names Version
As the door turns on its hinges, So does the sluggard on his bed.
King James Version
As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
English Standard Version
As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.
New American Standard Bible
As the door turns on its hinges, So does a lazy one on his bed.
New Century Version
Like a door turning back and forth on its hinges, the lazy person turns over and over in bed.
Amplified Bible
As the door turns on its hinges, So does the lazy person on his bed [never getting out of it].
World English Bible
As the door turns on its hinges, So does the sluggard on his bed.
Geneva Bible (1587)
As the doore turneth vpon his hinges, so doeth the slouthfull man vpon his bed.
Legacy Standard Bible
As the door turns on its hinges,So does the sluggard on his bed.
Berean Standard Bible
As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.
Contemporary English Version
A door turns on its hinges, but a lazy person just turns over in bed.
Complete Jewish Bible
The door turns on its hinges, and the lazy man on his bed.
Darby Translation
[As] the door turneth upon its hinges, so the sluggard upon his bed.
Easy-to-Read Version
Like a door on its hinges, a lazy man turns back and forth on his bed.
George Lamsa Translation
As a door turns upon its hinges, so does the slothful turn on his bed.
Good News Translation
Lazy people turn over in bed. They get no farther than a door swinging on its hinges.
Lexham English Bible
The door turns on its hinge, and a lazy person on his bed.
Literal Translation
As the door turns on its hinge, so is the lazy one on his bed.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Like as the dore turneth aboute vpon the tresholde, euen so doth the slouthfull welter himself in his bedd.
American Standard Version
As the door turneth upon its hinges, So doth the sluggard upon his bed.
Bible in Basic English
A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The door is turning upon its hinges, and the sluggard is still upon his bed.
King James Version (1611)
As the doore turneth vpon his hinges: so doeth the slothfull vpon his bedde.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Like as the doore turneth about vpon the hynges: euen so doth the slouthfull walter him selfe in his bed.
English Revised Version
As the door turneth upon its hinges, so doth the sluggard upon his bed.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As a dore is turned in his hengis; so a slow man in his bed.
Update Bible Version
[As] the door turns on its hinges, So does the sluggard on his bed.
Webster's Bible Translation
[As] the door turneth upon its hinges, so [doth] the slothful upon his bed.
New English Translation
Like a door that turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.
New King James Version
As a door turns on its hinges, So does the lazy man on his bed.
New Living Translation
As a door swings back and forth on its hinges, so the lazy person turns over in bed.
New Life Bible
As a door turns, so does the lazy man on his bed.
New Revised Standard
As a door turns on its hinges, so does a lazy person in bed.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The door, turneth on its hinges, and, the sluggard, upon his bed.
Douay-Rheims Bible
As the door turneth upon its hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
Revised Standard Version
As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.
Young's Literal Translation
The door turneth round on its hinge, And the slothful on his bed.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
As the door turns on its hinges, So does the sluggard on his bed.

Contextual Overview

14 Just as a door turns on its hinges, so a lazybones turns back over in bed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 6:9, Proverbs 6:10, Proverbs 12:24, Proverbs 12:27, Proverbs 24:33, Hebrews 6:12

Cross-References

Genesis 12:16
Because of her, Abram got along very well: he accumulated sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, men and women servants, and camels. But God hit Pharaoh hard because of Abram's wife Sarai; everybody in the palace got seriously sick.
Job 42:12
God blessed Job's later life even more than his earlier life. He ended up with fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand teams of oxen, and one thousand donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters. He named the first daughter Dove, the second, Cinnamon, and the third, Darkeyes. There was not a woman in that country as beautiful as Job's daughters. Their father treated them as equals with their brothers, providing the same inheritance.
Proverbs 10:22
God 's blessing makes life rich; nothing we do can improve on God.
Proverbs 27:4
We're blasted by anger and swamped by rage, but who can survive jealousy?
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Then I observed all the work and ambition motivated by envy. What a waste! Smoke. And spitting into the wind.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[As] the door turneth upon his hinges,.... And moves this way and that way, and opens and shuts, and yet hangs where it did, is not moved from its place:

so [doth] the slothful upon his bed; he turns himself from side to side, but is still on his bed, and does not move out of it, and go about his business. Aben Ezra makes mention of another reading and sense, "the door turneth upon his hinges", and is opened to let men out, one and another, to his work; "but [yet] the slothful man [is] upon his bed"; though one and another rise and go about business, and he hears the door open again and again, he stirs not, but keeps his, bed. So profane sinners lie on the bed of sinful lusts and sensual pleasures, indulge themselves in chambering and wantonness, and do not care to rise from hence, and walk honestly as in the daytime; and though their consciences are sometimes jogged by inward pricks, and they are moved a little by the reproofs of their friends, or awakened by the judgments of God; yet these are quickly over, and they give themselves a turn and go to sleep again: sometimes there are some motions in them, some thoughts and resolutions of amendment, some purposes to do good works; but, alas! their slothfulness is so great, and the habits and customs of sin so strong, that they cannot break through them, shake off their sloth, and come out, but remain as they were: and so it is with carnal professors, resting in their own works, and in a round of duties; and after ten, twenty, thirty years' profession, or more, they are just where they were; have no spiritual knowledge, judgment, and experience.


 
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