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13The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

Proverbs 22:13

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 13)

Note, 1. Those that have no love for their business will never want excuses to shake it off. Multitudes are ruined, both for soul and body, by their slothfulness, and yet still they have something or other to say for themselves, so ingenious are men in putting a cheat upon their own souls. And who, I pray, will be the gainer at last, when the pretences will be all rejected as vain and frivolous? 2...

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