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Proverbs 26:13
Solomon uses humour whenever he discusses a lazy man. The lazy man has his excuse. And perhaps there is a lion. But we know that, really, this man is lazy. He only wants an excuse not to work.
Solomon uses humour whenever he discusses a lazy man. The lazy man has his excuse. And perhaps there is a lion. But we know that, really, this man is lazy. He only wants an excuse not to work.
Verse Proverbs 26:13. _THE SLOTHFUL_ MAN _SAITH_] Proverbs 22:13....
Compare the marginal reference note. Here there is greater dramatic vividness in the two words used: (1) A roaring one, (2) a lion, more specifically....
CHAPTER 26 CONCERNING THE FOOL AND THE SLUGGARD Eleven times we meet the word fool in this chapter. Three different words are used in the Hebrew for fool. The first is “avil” which signifies weakness....
THE BOOK OF FOOLS. A section containing a series of synthetic couplets dealing with folly (except Proverbs 26:2). The text is unusually corrupt and defective. PROVERBS 26:1. For the opposite use of s...
A LION. a black lion....
Almost identical with Proverbs 22:13, where see note. _the slothful_man] Rather, THE SLUGGARD. See Proverbs 26:16, note....
THE SLOTHFUL MAN SAITH, &C.— In this and the following verses, three degrees of sloth are represented; the first, when a man is loth to stir out of doors about his business in the field, in this verse...
TEXT Proverbs 26:9-19 9. As a thorn that goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, So is a parable in the mouth of fools. 10. As an archer that woundeth all, So is he that hireth a fool and he that...
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. (THERE IS) A LION IN THE WAY. Energy soon puts to flight such lions ()....
FOOLS. SLUGGARDS. TALKERS 1-12. The vv. refer chiefly to fools....
THE SLOTHFUL MAN SAITH, THERE IS A LION IN THE WAY... — See above on Proverbs 22:13....
אָמַ֣ר עָ֭צֵל שַׁ֣חַל בַּ † דָּ֑רֶךְ אֲ֝רִ֗י...
CHAPTER 27 THE FOOL "As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool…A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools. Answer not a fool accord...
Verse Proverbs 26:2. Therefore, if the heart knows that a curse is unjust it may rest in the certainty that it cannot harm. Verses Proverbs 26:3. In this group of proverbs the fool is the subject. The...
The slothful [man] saith, (h) [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets. (h) Read (Proverbs 22:13)....
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?...
_LAZINESS AND COWARDICE_ ‘The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.’ Proverbs 26:13 I. THERE IS A LION IN THE WAY!—In what way? I answer, In the way of life, of...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
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 a...
The slothful [man] saith, [There is] a lion in the way; a lion [is] in the streets. Ver. 13. _The slothful man sayeth, There is a lion._] _See Trapp on "_ Pro 22:13 _"_...
_The slothful man saith_, &c. “In this and the following verses, three degrees of sloth are represented; the first, when a man is loath to stir out of doors about his business in the field, Proverbs 2...
The slothful man saith, eagerly inventing excuses to keep himself from work, THERE IS A LION IN THE WAY; A LION IS IN THE STREETS. Proverbs 22:13....
CONCERNING FOOLS AND SLUGGARDS...
THIS SECONDCHAPTER of the series is clearly the Exodus section, the work of the enemy manifesting itself in various forms of opposition to the truth, beginning with foolishness and ending with hatred....
To excuse his idleness, and keeping himself at home. SEE POOLE ON "PROVERBS 22:13"....
Proverbs 26:13 lazy H6102 says H559 (H8804) lion H7826 road H1870 lion H738 streets H7339...
Proverbs 26:13 I. There is a lion in the way? In what way? I answer, In the way of life, of every life. Life, if it is to be a true life, is not an easy thing. The men who live for nobler objects than...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: (Principal lesson, Proverbs 26:20-25.) God gives us two ears and two eyes, but only one tongue. We should therefore see and hear mor...
Proverbs 26:1. _As snow in summer,_ which beats down the fruits; _and as rain in harvest,_ which causes the corn to shoot in the ear; so is honour incongruous to a fool. He shames his laurels, he wast...
_The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets._ A LION IN THE WAY The reprehensible sloth of the coward does not appear in what he says, but in what he leaves unsaid....
SHAM LIONS AND REAL LIONS The sluggard saith, There is a lion in the way; A lion is in the streets. Proverbs 26:13. 1. That was what the sluggard said. When his wife wanted him to get up and go out...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 26:13 These proverbs focus on the SLUGGARD. He looks ridiculous in his laziness (vv. Proverbs 26:13) even while considering himse
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 26:15. IN HIS BOSOM. Rather, IN THE DISH, as in chap. Proverbs 19:24. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 26:12_ SELF-CONCEIT AND INDOLENCE I.
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 26:1 Certain proverbs concerning the fool (_kesil_),_ _with the exception, perhaps, of Proverbs 26:2 (see on Proverbs 1:22)....
Shall we turn now to Proverbs 26:1-28 to begin our study this evening. The first twelve verses of Proverbs 26:1-28 we trust doesn't apply to any of you tonight, because it's sort of addressed towards...
Proverbs 15:19; Proverbs 19:15; Proverbs 22:13...