Proverbs 22:13
The lazy one says: “There is a lion outside. I might be slain in the midst of the streets.”
Catholic Public Domain 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 the Lord watch over knowledge. And the words of the iniquitous are supplanted.
14The mouth of a foreign woman is a deep pit; the Lord was angry with him who will fall into it.
Cross References
Numbers 13:32Yet truly, the others, who had been with him, were saying, “By no means are we able to ascend to this people, because they are stronger than we are.”
Proverbs 19:15Laziness sends one into a deep sleep, and a dissolute soul will go hungry.
Song of Solomon 5:3Bride: I sleep, yet my heart watches. The voice of my beloved knocking:
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 →