Proverbs 22:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 13:32-33 : 32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and all the people we saw there are men of more than common size. 33 There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak, offspring of the Nephilim: and we seemed to ourselves no more than insects, and so we seemed to them.
  • Prov 15:19 : 19 Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
  • Prov 26:13-16 : 13 The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. 14 A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed. 15 The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him. 16 The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.

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  • Prov 26:13-16
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    13The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

    14A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.

    15The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.

    16The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.

  • Prov 15:19
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    19Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.

  • Prov 19:15
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    15Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

  • Prov 12:27
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    27He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.

  • Prov 24:30
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    30I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;

  • Prov 21:25
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    25The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.

  • Prov 19:24
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    24The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin, and will not even take it to his mouth again.

  • Prov 13:4
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    4The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

  • Job 4:11
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    11The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

  • Prov 28:1
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    1The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.

  • Prov 6:9-10
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    9How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

    10A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

  • Nah 2:11-12
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    11Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

    12Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?

  • 1 Kgs 20:36
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    36Then he said to him, Because you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, straight away when you have gone from me a lion will put you to death. And when he had gone, straight away a lion came rushing at him and put him to death.

  • Prov 18:9
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    9He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.

  • Ps 17:12
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    12Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

  • Ps 10:9
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    9He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

  • Prov 10:26
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    26Like acid drink to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the hater of work to those who send him.

  • Amos 5:19
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    19As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

  • Prov 20:2
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    2The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.

  • Prov 20:4
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    4The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

  • Prov 22:12
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    12The eyes of the Lord keep knowledge, but by him the acts of the false man will be overturned.

  • Prov 30:30
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    30The lion, which is strongest among beasts, not turning from his way for any;

  • Lam 3:10
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    10He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

  • Prov 28:15
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    15Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.

  • Prov 27:12
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    12The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

  • Eccl 10:18
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    18When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.

  • Prov 6:6
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    6Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

  • Prov 22:14
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    14The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

  • Amos 3:4
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    4Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?

  • 1 Kgs 13:24-26
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    24And he went on his way; but on the road a lion came rushing at him and put him to death; and his dead body was stretched in the road with the ass by its side, and the lion was there by the body.

    25And some men, going by, saw the body stretched out in the road with the lion by its side; and they came and gave news of it in the town where the old prophet was living.

    26Then the prophet who had made him come back, hearing it, said, It is the man of God, who went against the word of the Lord; that is why the Lord has given him to the lion to be wounded to death, as the Lord said.

  • Hos 13:7
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    7So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;

  • Job 28:8
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    8The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

  • Prov 22:3
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    3The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

  • Prov 24:33
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    33A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

  • Prov 17:12
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    12It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.

  • Job 15:23
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    23He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:

  • Prov 22:5
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    5Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

  • Prov 12:24
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    24The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.

  • Prov 7:12
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    12Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

  • Job 18:10
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    10The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

  • Ps 7:2
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    2So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

  • Ps 36:1
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    1<To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord. Of David.> The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.