Proverbs 22:3
A wyse man seeth the plague, and hydeth hym selfe: but the foolishe go on still, and are punished.
Bible (Bishops')
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 riche and poore meete together: the Lorde is the maker of them all.
4By humilitie and the feare of the Lorde, [commeth] riches, honour, and life.
Cross References
Proverbs 7:22Sodainly he folowed her, as it were an oxe led to the slaughter, and lyke as it were a foole [that laugheth] when he goeth to the stockes to be punished,
Proverbs 14:16A wyse man feareth, and departeth from euyll: but the foole is angry, and counteth hym selfe sure.
Proverbs 29:1He that is stifnecked and wyll not be refourmed, shall sodaynly be destroyed without any helpe.
Matthew 24:15When ye therefore, shall see the abhomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophete, stande in the holy place, (who so readeth, let hym vnderstande.)
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 →