Proverbs 22:13 Cross References - LXX2012

¹³ The sluggard makes excuses, and says, [There is] a lion in the ways, and murderers in the streets.

³² But the men that went up together with him said, We will not go up, for we shall not by any means be able to go up against the nation, for it is much stronger than we. ³³ And they brought a horror of that land which they surveyed upon the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed by to survey it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of extraordinary stature.

¹⁹ The ways of sluggards are strewn with thorns; but those of the diligent are made smooth.

¹³ A sluggard when sent on a journey says, [There is] a lion in the ways, and [there are] murderers in the streets. ¹⁴ As a door turns on the hinge, so does a sluggard on his bed. ¹⁵ A sluggard having hid his hand in his bosom, will not be able to bring it up to his mouth. ¹⁶ A sluggard seems to himself wiser than one who most satisfactorily brings back a message.