Proverbs 22:13
Lazy people make claims like, “There's a lion outside! I might be killed if I go out there!”
Free Bible 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 Lord watches over true knowledge, but counteracts the words of liars.
Cross References
Numbers 13:32They spread a negative report among the Israelites about the country they had explored. They told people, “The country we explored destroys the people that live there. Plus everyone we saw was really big!
Proverbs 19:15Lazy people are often fast asleep, but idleness means they're hungry.
Song of Solomon 5:3I replied, “I've already got undressed. I don't have to get dressed again, do I? I've already washed my feet. I don't have to make them dirty again, do I?”
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 →