Closes the sluggard run, and returns the chapter's phrase from 26:5 and 26:12.
Quick answer
He has done nothing all week and he is certain he sees it more clearly than seven people who could actually explain themselves.
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The number is the craft. Seven is completeness in this literature, so it is not "several people" but the full complement of sensible counsel, and he outranks all of it in his own estimate. The men are described by capacity rather than status: they can answer sensibly, meaning they could give a reasoned account, which is exactly what he has never had to do.
Placing this at the end of the sluggard run does something the run needed. Laziness in these four verses has looked comic, and this verse names what makes it durable. He is not idle and troubled about it; he is idle and satisfied, which is why verse 13's lion is available whenever he needs it. The chapter has now used in his own eyes three times, and the third lands on the man least likely to suspect it applies to him.
Related: Proverbs 26:12 · Proverbs 26:5 · Proverbs 3:7 · Proverbs 12:15
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