10:18a Through laziness the roof caves in,

Lazy people let the roofs of ⌊their own⌋ houses rot.
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Lazy people let their roofs collapse, (FBV)

10:18b and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.

And the roof leaks because they will not work.
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idle people don’t repair their leaky houses. (FBV)
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Because of hands that arenʼt busy, the house leaks. (New International Reader’s Version)

10:18a-b (combined)

Some people are too lazy to fix a leaky roof— then the house collapses. (EASY2015)
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If a man is too lazy to work on his house, its roof will fall down. Rain will make his rooms wet. (EEB)

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