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Sluggard

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This is a brief cross-reference entry. For the full topic material click the following topic: Idleness.

The sluggard is the very lazy person of Proverbs whose habitual refusal of work, learning, and reasonable foresight invites poverty and reproach. Wisdom literature draws the figure as a foil to the diligent, holding up the slothful as a warning rather than a model.

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