Proverbs 22:3
An intelligent man seeing a bad man severely punished is himself instructed, but fools pass by and are punished.
Brenton Septuagint
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; but the Lord made them both.
4The fear of the Lord is the offspring of wisdom, and wealth, and glory, and life.
Cross References
Exodus 9:21And he that did not attend in his mind to the word of the Lord, left the cattle in the fields.
Proverbs 7:22And he followed her, being gently led on, and that as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:
Proverbs 14:16A wise man fears, and departs from evil; but the fool trusts in himself, and joins himself with the transgressor.
Proverbs 29:1A reprover is better than a stiff-necked man: for when the latter is suddenly set on fire, there shall be no remedy.
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 →