Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”
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- Proverbs 26:13–15 The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!” As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed. The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
- Numbers 13:32–33 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”
- Proverbs 15:19 The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.