Proverbs 26:13
Lazy people are the ones who say, “There's a lion on the road—a lion running around the streets!”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
In Context
12Have you seen a man who is wise in his own eyes? There's more hope for stupid people than for him!
14A lazy person turns in bed like a door turns on its hinge.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Lazy people are often fast asleep, but idleness means they're hungry.
Matthew 25:25So since I was afraid of you I went and buried your talent in the ground. Look, you can have back what belongs to you.’
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:13
12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Here is, 1. A spiritual disease supposed, and that is self-conceit: Seest thou a man? Yes, we see many a one, wise in his own conceit, who has some little sense, but is proud of it, thinks it much more than it is, more than any of his neighbours, have, and enough, so that he needs no more, has such a conceit of his own abilities as makes him opinionative, dogmatical, and censorious; and all the use he makes of his knowledge is… Read the whole commentary →