Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself, but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
In Context
2The rich and the poor meet together. LORD is the maker of them all.
4The reward of humility [and] the fear of LORD [is] riches and honor and life.
Cross References
Exodus 9:21And he who did not regard the word of LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.
Proverbs 7:22He goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,
Proverbs 14:16A wise man fears, and departs from evil, but the fool bears himself insolently, and is confident.
Proverbs 29:1He who, being often reproved, hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Matthew 24:15When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him who reads understand),
Hebrews 6:18So that by two immutable events, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, having fled for refuge to seize the hope being openly displayed.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:3
2 The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all. Note, 1. Among the children of men divine Providence has so ordered it that some are rich and others poor, and these are intermixed in societies: The Lord is the Maker of both, both the author of their being and the disposer of their lot. The greatest man in the world must acknowledge God to be his Maker, and is under the same obligations to be subject to him that the meanest is; and the poorest has the honour to be the work of God's hands as… Read the whole commentary →