Proverbs 15:19; Proverbs 19:15; Proverbs 22:13
Compare the marginal reference note. Here there is greater dramatic vividness in the two words used: (1) A roaring one, (2) a lion, more specif...
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 a...
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 ou...
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 l...
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...
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...
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 hi...
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 slothful [man] saith ,.... Within himself; or to such that excite him to diligence and industry, to go about the business of his calling, to til...
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 Trap...
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 o...
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,...
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 i...
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.— Prove...
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 a...
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...
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...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 26:1-20 Certain proverbs concerning the fool ( kesil ), with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Prov...
Concerning Fools and Sluggards
The slothful man saith, eagerly inventing excuses to keep himself from work, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. Proverbs 22:13...
13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.