Devine Scripture

Proverbs 22:13

Proverbs chapter 22 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The sluggard saith, There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The sluggard saith, There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.

Context

v.12The eyes of Jehovah preservehim that hathknowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.

v.13This passage

v.14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 26:13

    The sluggard saith, There is a lion in the way; A lion is in the streets.

  • Proverbs 15:19

    The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; But the path of the upright is made a highway.

  • Numbers 13:32

    And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.