Proverbs 22:3
If you're sensible you see danger coming and get out of the way; but stupid people just keep going and pay for it.
Free Bible Version
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 created them all.
4The reward you receive for being humble and respecting the Lord is wealth, honor, and life.
Cross References
Exodus 9:21But those who didn't care what the Lord said left their servants and livestock outside.
Proverbs 7:22He followed her right away, like an ox to the slaughter. Like a stag that's caught in a snare
Proverbs 14:16Wise people are careful and avoid evil, but stupid people are confidently reckless.
Proverbs 29:1Anyone who goes on stubbornly rejecting many warnings will be suddenly destroyed, without hope of healing.
Matthew 24:15So when you see the ‘idolatry that causes devastation’ standing in the holy place that the prophet Daniel spoke about (those who read this please consider carefully),
Hebrews 6:18So by these two actions that can't be changed, and since it's impossible for God to lie, we can have total confidence, having run for safety to take hold of the hope God presented to 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 →