Proverbs 26:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

Proverbs 26:13 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 22:13
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
Proverbs 15:19
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

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Diligence Idleness Industry Labor Laziness Rising Self-Indulgence Slothfulness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13)

When a man talks foolishly we say, He talks idly; for none betray their folly more than those who are idle and go about to excuse themselves in their idleness. As men’s folly makes them slothful, so their slothfulness makes them foolish. Observe, 1. What the slothful man really dreads. He dreads the way, the streets, the place where work is to be done and a journey to be gone; he hates business, h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. (Compare Pr 22:13).