Proverbs 14:16
The wise fear, and so turn away from evil. The foolish leap ahead with confidence.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
In Context
17The impatient will work foolishness. And a resourceful man is hated.
Cross References
Genesis 42:18Then, on the third day, he brought them out of prison, and he said: “Do as I have said, and you will live. For I fear God.
1 Kings 19:2And so Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “May the gods do these things, and may they add these other things, if by this hour tomorrow I will not have made your life like the life of one of them.”
1 Kings 20:18And he said: “If they have arrived for peace, apprehend them alive; if to do battle, capture them alive.”
Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz named Job, and he was a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil.
Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand over an orphan, even when it might seem to me that I have the advantage over him at the gate;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:16
15 The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going. Note, 1. It is folly to be credulous, to heed every flying report, to give ear to every man's story, though ever so improbable, to take things upon trust from common fame, to depend upon every man's profession of friendship and give credit to every one that will promise payment; those are simple who thus believe every word, forgetting that all men, in some sense, are liars in comparison with God, all whose words we are to believe… Read the whole commentary →