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Proverbs 10:26 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him. "

Proverbs 10:26

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24 What the wicked fear will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

25 When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

27 The fear of the LORD prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

28 The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

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Observe this: people with a lazy, sluggish spirit, who love ease and cannot focus on any task, are not fit to be used, not even for a simple errand. They will not deliver a message carefully, and they will not hurry back. For that reason, they are very unfit to be ministers, Christ’s messengers, because he does not approve of sending sluggards into his harvest.

Those who make the mistake of trusting such people with any responsibility will surely suffer trouble from them. A lazy servant is as unpleasant to his master as vinegar is to the teeth and smoke is to the eyes. He stirs up anger, like vinegar sets the teeth on edge, and he causes sorrow when business is neglected and left undone, like smoke makes the eyes water.

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"As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God."

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Ecclesiastes 2:26

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"For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind."

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