Compare the marginal reference note. Here there is greater dramatic vividness in the two words used:

1. A roaring one,
2. A lion, m…

The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way ...—See above on Proverbs 22:13.

The slothful [man] says Within himself; or to such that excite him to diligence and industry, to go about the business of…

The slothful man hates everything that requires care and labor. But it is foolish to frighten ourselves from real duties by imagined difficulties. …