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The desire of the lazy person kills him

The writer speaks of what a person wants as if it were a person who could kill a lazy person. Here the lazy person wants to be idle and not work. Alternate translation: "A lazy person only wants to be idle, and because of that he will die" or "A lazy person will die because he does not want to work" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification and rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-nominaladj)

his hands refuse

The hand is a synecdoche for the person. Alternate translation: "he refuses" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche)