Proverbs 22:3
The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.
Berean Standard Bible
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 have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
4The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
Cross References
Exodus 9:21but those who disregarded the word of the LORD left their servants and livestock in the field.
Proverbs 7:22He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
Proverbs 14:16A wise man fears and turns from evil, but a fool is careless and reckless.
Proverbs 29:1A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
Matthew 24:15So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),
Hebrews 6:18Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
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 →