Proverbs 22:13
Good News Translation
Lazy people stay at home; they say a lion might get them if they go outside.

New Revised Standard Version
The lazy person says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!”

Contemporary English Version
Don't be so lazy that you say, "If I go to work, a lion will eat me!"

New American Bible
The sluggard says, “A lion is outside; I might be slain in the street.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
The slothful man saith: There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the midst of the streets.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The slothful man saith: There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the midst of the streets.

Proverbs 15:19 The way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns: the way of the just is without offence.

Proverbs 26:13-16 The slothful man saith: There is a lion in the way, and a lioness in the roads. . . .

Numbers 13:32,33 And they spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before the children of Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed, devoureth its inhabitants: the people, that we beheld are of a tall stature. . . .

Context
A Good Name
12The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge: and the words of the unjust are overthrown. 13The slothful man saith: There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the midst of the streets.14The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.…
Cross References
Proverbs 22:12
The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge: and the words of the unjust are overthrown.

Proverbs 26:13
The slothful man saith: There is a lion in the way, and a lioness in the roads.

Proverbs 22:12
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