Proverbs 22:3
A prudent [man] seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Darby Translation
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 poor meet together; Jehovah is the maker of them all.
4The reward of humility [and] the fear of Jehovah is riches, and honour, and life.
Cross References
Exodus 9:21But he that did not regard the word of Jehovah left his bondmen and his cattle in the field.
Proverbs 7:22He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool;
Proverbs 14:16A wise [man] feareth and departeth from evil; but the foolish is overbearing and confident.
Proverbs 29:1He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and without remedy.
Matthew 24:15When therefore ye shall see the abomination of desolation, which is spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in [what is a] holy place, (he that reads let him understand,)
Hebrews 6:18that by two unchangeable things, in which [it was] impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,
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 →