The Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 26:13

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

This is virtually the same as Proverbs 22:13. The words for "lion" are different in two parts of the verse, shakhal being the lion of advanced age, ari the full-grown animal; the latter may possibly be assumed to be the more dangerous of the two, and so a climax would be denoted.

There is a proverb current in Bechuana, which says, "The month of seed time is the season of headaches."

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