the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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Proverbs 22:13
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The slacker says, “There’s a lion outside!I’ll be killed in the public square!”
The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!"
The lazy one says, "There is a lion outside; I will be killed in the streets!"
The lazy person says, "There's a lion outside! I might get killed out in the street!"
The lazy one [manufactures excuses and] says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets [if I go out to work]!"
The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"
The slouthfull man saith, A lyon is without, I shall be slaine in the streete.
The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside;I will be killed in the streets!"
The slacker says, "There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!"
Don't be so lazy that you say, "If I go to work, a lion will eat me!"
A lazy man says, "There's a lion outside! I'll be killed if I go out in the street!"
The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets!
A person who is lazy and wants to stay home says, "There is a lion outside, and I might be killed in the streets!"
When he is sent on an errand, the sluggard says, There is a lion on the road! and, Behold, there is murder in the streets!
Lazy people stay at home; they say a lion might get them if they go outside.
A lazy person says "A lion in the street! In the middle of the highway, I shall be killed!"
The lazy one says, A lion is outside! I will be killed in the streets!
The slouthfull body sayeth: there is a lyo wt out, I might be slayne in ye strete.
The sluggard saith, There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.
The sluggard saith: 'There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.'
The slothfull man sayth, There is a lyon without, I shall be slaine in the streetes.
The slouthfull body saith there is a Lion without: I might be slaine in the streate.
The sluggard makes excuses, and says, There is a lion in the ways, and murderers in the streets.
The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be murdered in the streets.
A slow man schal seie, A lioun is withoutforth; Y schal be slayn in the myddis of the stretis.
The sluggard says, There is a lion outside: I shall be slain in the streets.
The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!"
The lazy man says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!"
The lazy person claims, "There's a lion out there! If I go outside, I might be killed!"
The lazy man says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"
The lazy person says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!"
Saith the sluggard, A lion outside! Amidst the broadways, shall I be slain.
The slothful man saith: There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the midst of the streets.
The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!"
The slothful hath said, `A lion [is] without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'
The loafer says, "There's a lion on the loose! If I go out I'll be eaten alive!"
The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside; I will be killed in the streets!"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The slothful: That is, the slothful man uses any pretext, however improbable, to indulge his love of ease and indolence. Proverbs 15:19, Proverbs 26:13-16, Numbers 13:32, Numbers 13:33
Reciprocal: Judges 5:15 - thoughts 1 Kings 13:24 - a lion Proverbs 6:6 - thou Proverbs 12:24 - but Proverbs 21:25 - General Proverbs 24:31 - and the Ecclesiastes 11:4 - General Song of Solomon 5:3 - have put Haggai 1:2 - This
Cross-References
And Abraham put the wood for the burned offering on his son's back, and he himself took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them went on together.
Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned offering?
And Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the burned offering: so they went on together.
And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.
And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.
Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.
After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;
And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.
You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The slothful [man] saith, [there is] a lion without,.... Or, "in the street". This he says within himself; or to those who call out to him, and put him on doing the business of his proper calling, whether in the field or elsewhere, which, through his slothfulness, he has a disinclination to; and therefore frames excuses, and suggests this and that difficulty or danger in the way, expressed by a "lion without"; and which shows the folly and weakness of his excuses, since lions do not usually walk in cities, towns, and villages, and in the streets of them, but in woods and mountains;
I shall be slain in the streets; by the lion there; or I shall never be able to get over the difficulties, and through the dangers, which attending to business will expose me to. Some apply this to the difficulties that slothful persons imagine in the learning of languages, arts, and sciences; as Jarchi applies it to the learning of the law.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The point of the satire is the ingenuity with which the slothful man devises the most improbable alarms. He hears that âthere is a lion without,â i. e., in the broad open country; he is afraid of being slain in the very streets of the city.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 22:13. The slothful man saith, There is a lion without — But why does he say so? Because he is a slothful man. Remove his slothfulness, and these imaginary difficulties and dangers will be no more. He will not go abroad to work in the fields, because he thinks there is a lion in the way; he will not go out into the town for employment, as he fears to be assassinated in the streets! From both these circumstances he seeks total cessation from activity.
