Proverbs 22:13

Proverbs 22:13 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

13The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside!

I’ll be killed in the public square!”

13The lazy one says, “There is a lion outside;

I will be killed in the streets!”

13The lazy one [manufactures excuses and] says, “There is a lion outside!

I will be killed in the streets [if I go out to work]!”

13The slacker says, “There is a lion outside!

I will be slain in the streets!”

13The sluggard saith, There is a lion without;

I shall be slain in the streets.

13The slouthfull man saith, A lyon is without, I shall be slaine in the streete.

13The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!

I will be killed in the streets!”

13People who don’t want to work say, “There’s a lion outside!”

Or they say, “I’ll be murdered if I go out into the streets!”

13A lazy person stays in his house.

He says, ‘There is a lion outside in the street!

If I go out, it will kill me!’

13The slothful has said, “A lion [is] outside, || I am slain in the midst of the broad places.”