Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be slain in the streets.
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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.
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- Prov 26:13-164 verses93%
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.
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19 The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; But the path of the upright is made a highway.
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15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
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27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting; But the precious substance of men [is to] the diligent.
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30 I went by the field of the sluggard, And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
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25 The desire of the sluggard killeth him; For his hands refuse to labor.
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24 The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, And will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
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4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
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11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
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1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth; But the righteous are bold as a lion.
- Prov 6:9-102 verses72%
9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10 [ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:
- Nah 2:11-122 verses72%
11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion [and] the lioness walked, the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.
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36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of Jehovah, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
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9 He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.
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12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
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9 He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
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26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, So is the sluggard to them that send him.
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19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
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2 The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own life.
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4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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12 The eyes of Jehovah preserve [him that hath] knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.
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30 The lion, which is mightiest among beasts, And turneth not away for any;
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10 He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
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13 They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.
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15 [ As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, [So is] a wicked ruler over a poor people.
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12 A prudent man seeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [But] the simple pass on, [and] suffer for it.
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18 By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.
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6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:
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14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
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4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
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24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his body was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it; the lion also stood by the body.
25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the mouth of Jehovah: therefore Jehovah hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake unto him.
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7 Therefore am I unto them as a lion; as a leopard will I watch by the way;
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8 The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.
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3 A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
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33 [ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;
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12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.
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23 He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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5 Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.
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24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; But the slothful shall be put under taskwork.
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12 Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)
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10 A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.
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2 Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
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1 [For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David the servant of Jehovah]. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.