Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”
World Messianic Bible
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’s eyes watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under the LORD’s wrath will fall into it.
Cross References
Numbers 13:32They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Song of Solomon 5:3I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil 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 →