Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard says, There is a lion outside. I shall be slain in the streets.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
In Context
12The eyes of LORD preserve knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the treacherous man.
14The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of LORD shall fall in it.
Cross References
Numbers 13:32And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the sons of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up the inhabitants of it. And all the people that we saw
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Song of Solomon 5:3I have put off my garment, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:13
12 The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. Here is, 1. The special care God takes to preserve knowledge, that is, to keep up religion in the world by keeping up among men the knowledge of himself and of good and evil, notwithstanding the corruption of mankind, and the artifices of Satan to blind men's minds and keep them in ignorance. It is a wonderful instance of the power and goodness of the eyes of the Lord, that is, his watchful providence. He preserves men… Read the whole commentary →