13 The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 22:13

Commentary on Proverbs 22:13

(Read Proverbs 22:13)

The slothful man talks of a lion without, but considers not his real danger from the devil, that roaring lion within, and from his own slothfulness, which kills him.