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Proverbs 22:13 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!” "

Proverbs 22:13

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11 He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

12 The LORD’s eyes watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.

13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”

14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under the LORD’s wrath will fall into it.

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

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People who do not love their work will always find excuses to avoid it. Many people ruin themselves, in body and soul, through laziness, and yet they still have some excuse ready. People are very skilled at deceiving their own hearts. In the end, who gains anything when those excuses are shown to be empty and useless?

Many keep themselves from real duties by imagining dangers that are not there. The lazy person says he has work outside in the fields, but he imagines a lion is there. He even claims he is afraid to walk through the streets because someone might meet him and kill him. He does not really believe this himself. He only says it to those who try to get him up and moving. He talks about a lion outside, but he does not think about his real danger from the devil, that roaring lion, who is with him, or from his own laziness, which is killing him.

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"Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the LORD’s voice, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you.” As soon as he had departed from him, a lion found him and killed him."

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