Proverbs 22:13

World English Bible (2000)

The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 13:32-33 : 32 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 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 like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.
  • Prov 26:13-16 : 13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!" 14 As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed. 15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

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  • Prov 26:13-16
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    93%

    13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!"

    14 As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.

    15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

    16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

  • Prov 15:19
    76%

    19 The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

  • Prov 19:15
    76%

    15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Prov 12:27
    75%

    27 The slothful man doesn't roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

  • Prov 24:30
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    30 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

  • Prov 21:25
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    25 The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

  • Prov 19:24
    73%

    24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

  • Prov 13:4
    73%

    4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

  • Job 4:11
    72%

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

  • Prov 28:1
    72%

    1 The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

  • Prov 6:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

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

  • Nah 2:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    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 cubs, and no one made them afraid?

    12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

  • 1 Kgs 20:36
    71%

    36 Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall kill you." As soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him.

  • Prov 18:9
    71%

    9 One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

  • Ps 17:12
    71%

    12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Ps 10:9
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    9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

  • Prov 10:26
    71%

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

  • Amos 5:19
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    19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

  • Prov 20:2
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    2 The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

  • Prov 20:4
    71%

    4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

  • Prov 22:12
    70%

    12 The eyes of Yahweh watch over knowledge; but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.

  • Prov 30:30
    70%

    30 The lion, which is mightiest among animals, and doesn't turn away for any;

  • Lam 3:10
    70%

    10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

  • Ps 22:13
    70%

    13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Prov 28:15
    70%

    15 As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

  • Prov 27:12
    70%

    12 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

  • Eccl 10:18
    70%

    18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • Prov 6:6
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    6 Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

  • Prov 22:14
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    14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.

  • Amos 3:4
    70%

    4 Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?

  • 1 Kgs 13:24-26
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    70%

    24 When he had gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him. His body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.

    25 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 lived.

    26 When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, "It is the man of God who was disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to him."

  • Hos 13:7
    69%

    7 Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.

  • Job 28:8
    69%

    8 The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

  • Prov 22:3
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    3 A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

  • Prov 24:33
    69%

    33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;

  • Prov 17:12
    69%

    12 Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

  • Job 15:23
    69%

    23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • Prov 22:5
    69%

    5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

  • Prov 12:24
    69%

    24 The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

  • Prov 7:12
    68%

    12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

  • Job 18:10
    68%

    10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

  • Ps 7:2
    68%

    2 lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

  • Ps 36:1
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    1 An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."