Proverbs 26:13
The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
In Context
12Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
14As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Matthew 25:25I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’
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 →