15 Lazy people may put their hands in the dish,but they are too tired to lift the food to their mouths.
16 The lazy person thinks he is wiserthan seven people who give sensible answers.
17 Interfering in someone else’s quarrel as you pass byis like grabbing a dog by the ears.
18 Like a madman shootingdeadly, burning arrows
19 is the one who tricks a neighborand then says, “I was just joking.”
20 Without wood, a fire will go out,and without gossip, quarreling will stop.
21 Just as charcoal and wood keep a fire going,a quarrelsome person keeps an argument going.