Proverbs 26:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹³ The sluggard saith, There is a lion in the way; A lion is in the streets.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; A lion is in the streets.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ The sluggard says, There is a lion in the way! A lion is in the streets! [Prov. 22:13.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ The sluggard saith, There is a lion in the way; A lion is in the streets.

Common English Bible

¹³ A lazy person says, “There’s a lion in the path! A lion in the plazas!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ The lazy one says, "There is a lion along the way, and a lioness in the roads."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ The slothful man saith: There is a lion in the way, and a lioness in the roads.

Proverbs 26:13 Cross References

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the sluggard is as an hedge of thorns: But the path of the upright is made an highway.

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Proverbs 22:13

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

Proverbs 6:6

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:

Matthew 25:25

and I was afraid, and went away and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, thou hast thine own.