SEV Biblia, Chapter 22:13
¶ Dice el perezoso: El león está afuera; en medio de la calle seré muerto.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 22:13
Verse 13. The slothful man saith, There is a lion without ] But why does he say so? Because he is a slothful man. Remove his slothfulness, and these imaginary difficulties and dangers will be no more. He will not go abroad to work in the fields, because he thinks there is a lion in the way, he will not go out into the town for employment, as he fears to be assassinated in the streets! From both these circumstances he seeks total cessation from activity.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 13. The slothful [man] saith, [there is] a lion without , etc.] 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13 - The slothful man talks of a lion without, but considers not his rea danger from the devil, that roaring lion within, and from his ow slothfulness, which kills him.
Original Hebrew
אמר 559 עצל 6102 ארי 738 בחוץ 2351 בתוך 8432 רחבות 7339 ארצח׃ 7523
