Proverbs 14:16
A wise man feareth and declineth from evil: the fool leapeth over and is confident.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
In Context
17The impatient man shall work folly: and the crafty man is hateful.
Cross References
Genesis 42:18And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.
1 Kings 19:2And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and add still more, if by this hour to morrow I make not thy life as the life of one of them.
1 Kings 20:18And he said: Whether they come for peace, take them alive: or whether they come to fight, take them alive.
Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.
Job 31:21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in 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 →