Proverbs 22:13
The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”
The sluggard saith, There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- The slothful
- That is, the slothful man uses any pretext, however improbable, to indulge his love of ease and indolence.
- Proverbs 15:19; Proverbs 26:13–16; Numbers 13:32, 33