13 The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed 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.