Proverbs 22:13

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The sluggard has said,“There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 13:32-33 : 32 Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging report of the land they had investigated, saying,“The land that we passed through to investigate is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there are of great stature. 33 We even saw the Nephilim there(the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed like grasshoppers both to ourselves and to them.”
  • Prov 15:19 : 19 The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.
  • Prov 26:13-16 : 13 The sluggard has said,“There is a lion in the road! A lion in the streets!” 14 Like a door that turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed. 15 The sluggard has plunged his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own opinion than seven people who respond with good sense.

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  • Prov 26:13-16
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    13The sluggard has said,“There is a lion in the road! A lion in the streets!”

    14Like a door that turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.

    15The sluggard has plunged his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

    16The sluggard is wiser in his own opinion than seven people who respond with good sense.

  • Prov 15:19
    76%

    19The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.

  • Prov 19:15
    76%

    15Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.

  • Prov 12:27
    75%

    27The lazy person does not roast his prey, but personal possessions are precious to the diligent.

  • Prov 24:30
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    30I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one who lacks sense.

  • Prov 21:25
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    25What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands have refused to work.

  • Prov 19:24
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    24The sluggard has plunged his hand into the dish, and he will not even bring it back to his mouth!

  • Prov 13:4
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    4The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.

  • Job 4:11
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    11The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

  • Prov 28:1
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    1Α wicked person fled, though no one was pursuing, but the righteous person can be as confident as a lion.

  • Prov 6:9-10
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    72%

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

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

  • Nah 2:11-12
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    72%

    11Taunt against the Once-Mighty Lion Where now is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, lioness, and lion cub once prowled and no one disturbed them?

    12The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

  • 1 Kgs 20:36
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    36So the prophet said to him,“Because you have disobeyed the LORD, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you.” When he left him, a lion attacked and killed him.

  • Prov 18:9
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    9The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.

  • Ps 17:12
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    12He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits, like a young lion crouching in hidden places.

  • Ps 10:9
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    9He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.

  • Prov 10:26
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    26Like vinegar to the teeth and like smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

  • Amos 5:19
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    19Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.

  • Prov 20:2
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    2The king’s terrifying anger is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him sins against himself.

  • Prov 20:4
    71%

    4The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he asks for grain but has nothing.

  • Prov 22:12
    70%

    12The eyes of the LORD watched over a cause, and subverted the words of the treacherous person.

  • Prov 30:30
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    30a lion, mightiest of the beasts, who does not retreat from anything;

  • Lam 3:10
    70%

    10ד(Dalet) To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13They open their mouths to devour me like a roaring lion that rips its prey.

  • Prov 28:15
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    15Like a roaring lion or a roving bear, so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

  • Prov 27:12
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    12A shrewd person saw danger–he hid himself; the naive passed right on by– they had to pay for it.

  • Eccl 10:18
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    18Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of idle hands the house leaks.

  • Prov 6:6
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    6Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!

  • Prov 22:14
    70%

    14The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.

  • Amos 3:4
    70%

    4Does a lion roar in the woods if he has not cornered his prey? Does a young lion bellow from his den if he has not caught something?

  • 1 Kgs 13:24-26
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    70%

    24So the prophet from Judah travelled on. Then a lion attacked him on the road and killed him.There was his body lying on the road, with the donkey standing next to it, and the lion just standing there by the body.

    25Then some men came passing by and saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing next to the body. They went and reported what they had seen in the city where the old prophet lived.

    26When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, he said,“It is the prophet who rebelled against the LORD. The LORD delivered him over to the lion and it tore him up and killed him, in keeping with the LORD’S message that he had spoken to him.”

  • Hos 13:7
    69%

    7So I will pounce on them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

  • Job 28:8
    69%

    8Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

  • Prov 22:3
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    3A shrewd person saw danger and hid himself, but the naive passed on by and paid for it.

  • Prov 24:33
    69%

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

  • Prov 17:12
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    12It is better for a person to meet a mother bear being robbed of her cubs, than to encounter a fool in his folly.

  • Job 15:23
    69%

    23he wanders about– food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

  • Prov 22:5
    69%

    5Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.

  • Prov 12:24
    69%

    24The diligent person will rule, but the slothful will be put to forced labor.

  • Prov 7:12
    68%

    12at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)

  • Job 18:10
    68%

    10A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.

  • Ps 7:2
    68%

    2Otherwise they will rip me to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me.

  • Ps 36:1
    68%

    1For the music director; written by the LORD’s servant, David; an oracle. An evil man is rebellious to the core. He does not fear God,