The sluggard
`atsel  (aw-tsale')
indolent -- slothful, sluggard.
is wiser
chakam  (khaw-kawm')
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful) -- cunning (man), subtil, (un-), wise(hearted), man).
in his own conceit
`ayin  (ah'-yin)
an eye; by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
than seven men
sheba`  (sheh'-bah)
a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
that can render
shuwb  (shoob)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively
a reason
ta`am  (tah'-am)
a taste, i.e. (figuratively) perception; by implication, intelligence; transitively, a mandate


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