13 The lazy man says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be slain 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.