13 The lazy person claims, "There's a lion out there! If I go outside, I might be killed!"

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.