Verse 13

The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be slain in the streets.

Referenced Verses

• Num 13:32-33 : 32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
• Prov 15:19 : 19 The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; But the path of the upright is made a highway.
• Prov 26:13-16 : 13 The sluggard saith, There is a lion in the way; A lion is in the streets. 14 [ As] the door turneth upon its hinges, So doth the sluggard upon his bed. 15 The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish; It wearieth 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.