Proverbs 22:3
The prudent foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Leeser Tanakh
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 poor meet together: the Lord is the maker them all.
4The reward of humility [and] the fear of the Lord are riches and honor, and life.
Cross References
Exodus 9:21And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field.
Proverbs 7:22He followed after her suddenly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as in fetters to his correction, the fool:
Proverbs 14:16A wise man is fearful, and departeth from evil; but the fool exciteth himself, and is confident.
Proverbs 29:1A man that, having received many admonitions, still hardeneth his neck, will suddenly be broken, and this without 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 →