Do not let them depart from your sight, guard them within your heart;

I walk in the path of righteousness, in the pathway of justice,

I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!”

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”

If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.