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A Portrait of Idlers[a]

13 The idler says, “There is a lion in the road,
    a lion in the middle of the street.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 26:13 The popular proverbs use sarcasm in their biting caricatures of idlers. The Book of Proverbs has collected numerous sayings about this subject (see note on Prov 6:6) and here others have been appended.
  2. Proverbs 26:13 See note on Prov 22:13.