“ The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. ”
Compare the marginal reference note. Here there is greater dramatic vividness in the two words used: (1) A roaring one, (2) a lion, more specifically.
The slothful [man] saith, (h) [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets. (h) Read ( Proverbs 22:13 ).
The Book of Fools. A section containing a series of synthetic couplets dealing with folly (except Proverbs 26:2 ). The text is unusually corrupt and defective. Proverbs 26:1 . For the opposit...
a lion . a black lion.
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. The slothful man saith - See the note on Proverbs 22:13 (note).
The slothful man saith, &c.— In this and the following verses, three degrees of sloth are represented; the first, when a man is loth to stir out of doors about his business in the field, in thi...
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. (There is) a lion in the way. Energy soon puts to flight such lions ( Proverbs 22:13 ).
Fools. Sluggards. Talkers 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools.
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way ... — See above on Proverbs 22:13 .
CHAPTER 27 THE FOOL "As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool…A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools. Answer not a fool ac...
Verse Proverbs 26:2 . Therefore, if the heart knows that a curse is unjust it may rest in the certainty that it cannot harm. Verses Proverbs 26:3-12 . In this group of proverbs the fool is the su...
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?...
LAZINESS AND COWARDICE ‘The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.’ Proverbs 26:13 I. There is a lion in the way! —In what way? I answer, In the way of li...
The slothful [man] saith ,.... Within himself; or to such that excite him to diligence and industry, to go about the business of his calling, to till his field, and dress his vineyard. The Septuagin...
The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets. Ver. 13. The slothful man sayeth, There is a lion. ] See Trapp on " Pro 22:13 "
The slothful man saith , &c. “In this and the following verses, three degrees of sloth are represented; the first, when a man is loath to stir out of doors about his business in the field, Prov...
THIS SECONDCHAPTER of the series is clearly the Exodus section, the work of the enemy manifesting itself in various forms of opposition to the truth, beginning with foolishness and ending with hatred...
13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. When a man talks foolishly we say, He talks idly; for none betray their folly more than those w...
To excuse his idleness, and keeping himself at home. See Poole on " Proverbs 22:13 " .
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 26:15 . In his bosom . Rather, In the dish , as in chap. Proverbs 19:24 . MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 26:12-16 SELF-CONCEIT AND INDOLENCE I. Th...
Proverbs 26:13 I. There is a lion in the way? In what way? I answer, In the way of life, of every life. Life, if it is to be a true life, is not an easy thing. The men who live for nobler objects...
Proverbs 26:1 . As snow in summer, which beats down the fruits; and as rain in harvest, which causes the corn to shoot in the ear; so is honour incongruous to a fool. He shames his laurels, he w...
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. A lion in the way The reprehensible sloth of the coward does not appear in what he says, but in what he leaves unsa...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 26:1-20 Certain proverbs concerning the fool ( kesil ), with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22 ). Proverbs 26:1 As snow in summe...
Concerning Fools and Sluggards
Proverbs 15:19 ; Proverbs 19:15 ; Proverbs 22:13