Proverbs 22:13

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Proverbs 22:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.

12 The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.

13 The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

Proverbs 26:13

The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!”

Proverbs 26:14

As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.

Proverbs 26:15

The slacker buries his hand in the dish; it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.

Proverbs 26:16

The slacker is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.

Numbers 13:32

So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.

Numbers 13:33

We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”