13The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside!" or, "I will be murdered in the streets!"


In Context

10 Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.

11 He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king for his friend.

12 The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.

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

14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the Lord 's wrath will fall into it.

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.

Proverbs 22:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:13The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

22:13The slothful man saith: There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the midst of the streets.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:13The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be slain in the streets.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:13The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:13The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be murdered in the streets.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:13The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:13The sluggard says, |There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:13The slothful hath said, 'A lion is without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:13The slothful man said, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.