Proverbios 22:13

13 El perezoso afirma: «¡Hay un león allí afuera!
¡Si salgo, me puede matar!».

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 pureza del corazón y habla con gracia
tendrá al rey como amigo.

12 El Señor
preserva a los que tienen conocimiento,
pero arruina los planes de los traicioneros.

13 El perezoso afirma: «¡Hay un león allí afuera!
¡Si salgo, me puede matar!».

14 La boca de la mujer inmoral es una trampa peligrosa;
los que provoquen el enojo del Señor
caerán en ella.

15 El corazón del muchacho está lleno de necedad,
pero la disciplina física la alejará de él.