The sluggard says, There is a lion in the way! A lion is in the streets! [Prov. 22:13.]
The way of the sluggard is overgrown with thorns [it pricks, lacerates, and entangles him], but the way of the righteous is plain and raised like a highway.
Slothfulness casts one into a deep sleep, and the idle person shall suffer hunger.
The sluggard says, There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways and be wise!–[Job 12:7.]
So I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is your own.