en_tn_lite_do_not_use/pro/19/15.md

# Laziness throws a person into a deep sleep

This speaks of how laziness causes a person to sleep a lot as if laziness forcefully throws the person into sleep. AT: "Laziness makes a person sleep a lot" or "A lazy person sleeps a lot" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])

# go hungry

This is an idiom which means to not eat. AT: "not eat" or "be hungry" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

# the command

"the command that he was taught"

# guards his life

"protects his life"

# his ways

This is an idiom which refers to how he lives. AT: "the way that he lives" or "how he lives" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/obey]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/command]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/life]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/death]]