Proverbs 22:13

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The lazy person says, 'There's a lion outside! I might be killed in the streets!'

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  • Num 13:32-33 : 32 And they spread a bad report about the land they had explored among the Israelites, saying, "The land we explored devours those who live in it, and all the people we saw there are of great size. 33 We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim. To ourselves, we seemed like grasshoppers, and we seemed the same to them."
  • Prov 15:19 : 19 The path of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the upright is smooth.
  • Prov 26:13-16 : 13 The lazy person says, 'There is a lion in the road, a lion in the streets!' 14 As a door turns on its hinges, so a lazy person turns on their bed. 15 The lazy person buries their hand in the dish and is too weary to bring it back to their mouth. 16 The lazy person is wiser in their own eyes than seven people who answer sensibly.

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  • Prov 26:13-16
    4 verses
    93%

    13 The lazy person says, 'There is a lion in the road, a lion in the streets!'

    14 As a door turns on its hinges, so a lazy person turns on their bed.

    15 The lazy person buries their hand in the dish and is too weary to bring it back to their mouth.

    16 The lazy person is wiser in their own eyes than seven people who answer sensibly.

  • Prov 15:19
    76%

    19 The path of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the upright is smooth.

  • Prov 19:15
    76%

    15 Laziness brings on deep sleep, and a lazy soul will go hungry.

  • Prov 12:27
    75%

    27 The lazy do not roast their game, but diligent people prize their possessions.

  • Prov 24:30
    75%

    30 I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one lacking sense.

  • Prov 21:25
    75%

    25 The desire of the lazy person kills them, for their hands refuse to work.

  • Prov 19:24
    73%

    24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish but will not even bring it back to his mouth.

  • Prov 13:4
    73%

    4 The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

  • Job 4:11
    72%

    11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

  • Prov 28:1
    72%

    1 The wicked flee when no one pursues them, but the righteous are as confident as a young lion.

  • Prov 6:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 How long will you lie there, sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

    10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—

  • Nah 2:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 Devastation, desolation, and destruction! Hearts melt, knees tremble, loins shake, and all faces turn pale.

    12 Where is the lion’s den, the lair of the young lions, where the lion went, the lioness went, and the lion’s cubs, with no one to disturb them?

  • 1 Kgs 20:36
    71%

    36 Then the prophet said to him, 'Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, as soon as you leave me, a lion will kill you.' And as soon as he left him, a lion found him and killed him.

  • Prov 18:9
    71%

    9 A lazy person in his work is a brother to a destroyer.

  • Ps 17:12
    71%

    12 They are like a lion eager to tear its prey, like a young lion crouching in hiding.

  • Ps 10:9
    71%

    9 He lies in wait secretly, like a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the afflicted; he catches the afflicted by drawing them into his net.

  • Prov 10:26
    71%

    26 Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is a sluggard to those who send him.

  • Amos 5:19
    71%

    19 It will be as if a man flees from a lion, only to be met by a bear; or as if he enters his house, rests his hand on the wall, and a snake bites him.

  • Prov 20:2
    71%

    2 The roar of a king is like the growl of a young lion; whoever provokes him to anger risks his life.

  • Prov 20:4
    71%

    4 The sluggard does not plow in the winter; at harvest time he looks for something, but finds nothing.

  • Prov 22:12
    70%

    12 The eyes of the LORD watch over knowledge, but He overturns the words of the treacherous.

  • Prov 30:30
    70%

    30 A lion, mighty among beasts, who does not retreat before any;

  • Lam 3:10
    70%

    10 He is like a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding.

  • Ps 22:13
    70%

    13 Many bulls surround me; strong ones of Bashan encircle me.

  • Prov 28:15
    70%

    15 Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

  • Prov 27:12
    70%

    12 The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.

  • Eccl 10:18
    70%

    18 Because of laziness, the roof sinks, and through idle hands, the house leaks.

  • Prov 6:6
    70%

    6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways and be wise.

  • Prov 22:14
    70%

    14 The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit; one who is cursed by the LORD will fall into it.

  • Amos 3:4
    70%

    4 Does a lion roar in the forest if it has no prey? Does a young lion growl from its den unless it has caught something?

  • 1 Kgs 13:24-26
    3 verses
    70%

    24 As he was traveling, a lion met him on the road and killed him. His body was thrown on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

    25 Some people who passed by saw the body lying on the road, with the lion standing beside it, and they went and reported it in the city where the old prophet lived.

    26 When the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard about it, he said, 'It is the man of God who defied the command of the LORD. Therefore, the LORD has given him over to the lion, which has mauled and killed him, just as the word of the LORD had spoken to him.'

  • Hos 13:7
    69%

    7 So I will become like a lion to them, like a leopard lying in wait by the path.

  • Job 28:8
    69%

    8 Proud beasts have not set foot on it, nor has the lion prowled over it.

  • Prov 22:3
    69%

    3 The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.

  • Prov 24:33
    69%

    33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

  • Prov 17:12
    69%

    12 Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

  • Job 15:23
    69%

    23 He wanders about for food, asking, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.

  • Prov 22:5
    69%

    5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the crooked; whoever guards their soul will stay far from them.

  • Prov 12:24
    69%

    24 The diligent hand will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.

  • Prov 7:12
    68%

    12 Now in the street, now in the squares, at every corner, she lurks.

  • Job 18:10
    68%

    10 His rope lies hidden in the ground, and his trap is set along the path.

  • Ps 7:2
    68%

    2 O Lord, my God, I take refuge in You; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me.

  • Ps 36:1
    68%

    1 To the choirmaster, a servant of the Lord, a psalm of David.

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