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Proverbs 22:13

World English Bible

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

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Proverbs 22:13 in other translations

The sluggard saith, There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.

Proverbs 22:13 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 22:13 in context

  1. 11He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully
    is the king’s friend.
  2. 12Yahweh’s eyes watch over knowledge;
    but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
  3. 13The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!
    I will be killed in the streets!”
  4. 14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit.
    He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.
  5. 15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child:
    the rod of discipline drives it far from him.