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HOW THE BOOK OF PROVERBS PORTRAYS AND DEALS WITH A SLUGGARD, DRUNK, NAGGING WIFE, CON ARTIST, LADY WISDOM, AND LADY FOLLY name class information date HOW THE BOOK OF PROVERBS PORTRAYS AND DEALS WITH A SLUGGARD, DRUNK, NAGGING WIFE, CON ARTIST, LADY WISDOM, AND LADY FOLLY Introduction Proverbs is a book that comprises of several sayings put together on how a person can live a good and healthy life. It also offers guidelines on how to handle people’s character concerning different issues. To add on, it has passages that use personification to give meaning concerning various topics. The aim of this paper is to focus on how the book of Proverbs portrays and deals with a sluggard, drunk, nagging wife, con artist, Lady Wisdom, and Lady Folly A Sluggard Person In the book of Proverbs, the expression sluggard is used fourteen times. A sluggard is an individual who has the habit of being inactive or lazy. The person is not responsible for his life. The Bible condemns lazy people and cautions them about the consequences of being lazy. In Proverbs 21:15, the Bible portrays a lazy person as someone who hates to work. He is an individual who loves to sleep as found in Proverbs 26:14. According to Proverbs 26:13, the lazy person is full of excuses so that he does not go to work. According to Proverbs 18:9, he wastes time and energy. In Proverbs 26:16, he also thinks that he is wise but in the actual sense, he is a fool. In Proverbs 12:24, the consequences of a lazy person are that he will become a servant since he has refused to become intelligent. Also, in Proverbs 20:4, the future of a lazy person is miserable since he is unable to plan ahead and does not work

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