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Proverbs 22

Prov. 22:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The slothful
`atsel (Hebrew #6102)
indolent
KJV usage: slothful, sluggard.
Pronounce: aw-tsale'
Origin: from 6101
man saith
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, There is a lion
'ariy (Hebrew #738)
from 717 (in the sense of violence); a lion
KJV usage: (young) lion, + pierce (from the margin).
Pronounce: ar-ee'
Origin: or (prolonged) earyeh {ar-yay'}
without
chuwts (Hebrew #2351)
(both forms feminine in the plural) from an unused root meaning to sever; properly, separate by a wall, i.e. outside, outdoors
KJV usage: abroad, field, forth, highway, more, out(-side, -ward), street, without.
Pronounce: khoots
Origin: or (shortened) chuts {khoots}
, I shall be slain
ratsach (Hebrew #7523)
properly, to dash in pieces, i.e. kill (a human being), especially to murder
KJV usage: put to death, kill, (man-)slay(-er), murder(-er).
Pronounce: raw-tsakh'
Origin: a primitive root
in
tavek (Hebrew #8432)
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
KJV usage: among(-st), X between, half, X (there- ,where-), in(-to), middle, mid(-night), midst (among), X out (of), X through, X with(-in).
Pronounce: taw'-vek
Origin: from an unused root meaning to sever
the streets
rchob (Hebrew #7339)
from 7337; a width, i.e. (concretely) avenue or area
KJV usage: broad place (way), street. See also 1050.
Pronounce: rekh-obe'
Origin: or rchowb {rekh-obe'}
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Ministry on This Verse

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The slothful.That is, the slothful man uses any pretext, however improbable, to indulge his love of ease and indolence.
Prov. 15:19• 19The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain. (Prov. 15:19)
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Prov. 26:13‑16• 13The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
 14As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
 15The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.
 16The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. (Prov. 26:13‑16)
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Num. 13:32‑33• 32And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
 33And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. (Num. 13:32‑33)
• See notes on Proverbs 12:27; 15:19; 19:24; 21:25. Many are the excuses devised by the sluggard to account for his supineness and utter lack of energy. Where no dangers or difficulties exist he imagines them; and where they really are he exaggerates them to such a degree that they appear to be insurmountable. (“Proverbs Twenty-Two” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets!