Other translations
New Catholic Bible
An idler is like a lump of dung; anyone who picks it up will shake it off his hand.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The idler is like the filth of dunghills; anyone that picks it up will shake it off his hand.
Good News Translation®
Lazy people are no better than dung; they are repulsive, and no one wants to get near them.
Wycliffe Bible
A slow man is stoned of (or is compared to) the dung of oxes [or the drit of oxen]; and each man that toucheth him, shall shake the hands.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The indolent may be compared to the filth of dunghills; any one that picks it up will shake it off his hand.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The idler is like a lump of dung; anyone who picks it up will shake it off his hand.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
The idler is like the filth of dunghills; anyone that picks it up will shake it off his hand.
Common English Bible © 2011
People who are afraid to act are like clumps of cow manure; those who pick it up will shake off their hand.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
The sluggard is like a lump of dung; whoever touches it shakes it off the hands.
Revised Standard Version
The indolent may be compared to the filth of dunghills; any one that picks it up will shake it off his hand.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
The idler is like the filth of dunghills; anyone that picks it up will shake it off his hand.