Proverbs 22:13
The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”
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- Proverbs 26:13–15 The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!” As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed. The slacker buries his hand in the dish; it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.
- Numbers 13:32–33 So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature. We even saw the Nephilim there— the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
- Proverbs 15:19 The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.