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Proverbs 26:13

The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets.

Read it in 5 translations

The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets.

The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!”

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”

The sluggard saith, There is a lion in the way; A lion is in the streets.

The slothful hath said, ‘A lion is in the way, A lion is in the broad places.’

10 The great [God] that formed all [things] both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.

11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, [so] a fool returneth to his folly.

12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.

13 The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets.

14 [As] the door turneth upon his hinges, so [doth] the slothful upon his bed.

15 The slothful hideth his hand in [his] bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.

16 The sluggard [is] wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

Put Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Calvin, Wesley, Barnes, Jamieson–Fausset–Brown, Aquinas’ Catena and other public-domain sources beside the passage.