Proverbios 22:13

13 Dice el perezoso: El león está afuera; en medio de la calle seré asesinado

Proverbios 22:13 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 22:13

The slothful [man] saith, [there is] a lion without
Or, "in the street". This he says within himself; or to those who call out to him, and put him on doing the business of his proper calling, whether in the field or elsewhere, which, through his slothfulness, he has a disinclination to; and therefore frames excuses, and suggests this and that difficulty or danger in the way, expressed by a "lion without"; and which shows the folly and weakness of his excuses, since lions do not usually walk in cities, towns, and villages, and in the streets of them, but in woods and mountains; I shall be slain in the streets;
by the lion there; or I shall never be able to get over the difficulties, and through the dangers, which attending to business will expose me to. Some apply this to the difficulties that slothful persons imagine in the learning of languages, arts, and sciences; as Jarchi applies it to the learning of the law.

Proverbios 22:13 In-Context

11 El que ama la limpieza de corazón, y la gracia de sus labios; su compañero será el rey

12 Los ojos del SEÑOR miran por la ciencia; mas él trastorna las cosas de los prevaricadores

13 Dice el perezoso: El león está afuera; en medio de la calle seré asesinado

14 Sima profunda es la boca de las extrañas; aquel contra el cual estuviere el SEÑOR airado, caerá en ella

15 La locura está ligada en el corazón del niño; mas la vara de la corrección la hará alejar de él