5 “THERE IS A LION OUTSIDE! I SHALL BE SLAIN IN THE STREETS!” Pondering the Illusions Created by a Lazy Heart Meditation on Proverbs 22:13, RSV The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!” The sluggard says, ‘There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!’ ” This is not what I expected the proverb to say. I would have expected it to say “The coward says, ‘There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!’ ” But it says “sluggard,” not “coward.”