C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch on Proverbs 26:13

Pro 26:13

There follows now a group of proverbs regarding the slothful: 13 The slothful saith there is a lion without,      A lion in the midst of the streets; cf. the original of this proverb, Pro 22:13. שׁוּעל, to say nothing of שׁחל, is not the jackal; שׁחל is the bibl. name for the lion. בּין is the more general expression for בּקרב, Isa 5:25; by the streets he thinks of the rows of houses that form them.