Proverbs 26:13 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 26. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 26:13

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 26:13: When a man talks foolishly we say, He talks idly; for none betray their folly more than those who are idle and go about to excuse themselves in their idleness. As men's folly makes them slothful, so their slothfulness makes them foolish. Observe, 1. What the slothful man really dreads.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 26:13: 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 till his field, and dress his vineyard. The Septuagint and Arabic versions add, "being sent into the way"; ordered by his master to go out to work, when he makes the following excuse: there is a lion in the way...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 26:13: The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets. (h) Read .
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 26:13: Pro 26:13 There follows now a group of proverbs regarding the slothful: 13 The slothful saith there is a lion without, A lion in the midst of the streets; cf. the original of this proverb, Pro 22:13. שׁוּעל, to say nothing of שׁחל, is not the jackal; שׁחל is the bibl. name for the lion.