Proverbs 22:13
13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion ▼ outside!I will be killed in the middle of the streets!” ▼
▼ The LXX changes the phrase to read “murderers in the street” to form a better parallelism, possibly because the verb רָצַח (ratsakh) is used only of humans, not wild animals. The NIV attempts to solve the problem by making the second line a separate claim by the sluggard: “or, ‘I will be murdered in the streets!’”
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