Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard makes excuses, and says, There is a lion in the ways, and murderers in the streets.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
In Context
12But the eyes of the Lord preserve discretion; but the transgressor despises wise words.
Cross References
Numbers 13:32And they brought a horror of that land which they surveyed upon the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed by to survey it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of extraordinary stature.
Proverbs 19:15+ 19:15 Or, keeps down.Cowardice possesses the effeminate man; and the soul of the sluggard shall hunger.
Song of Solomon 5:3I have put off my coat; 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 →