13The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. …
And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(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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