Proverbs 22:3

Those who have good sense realize that there is something dangerous ahead, and they avoid it; those who do not have good sense just keep going and later they will suffer because of doing that.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

In Context

2There is one thing that is true about both rich people and poor people: Yahweh is the one who created all of them.

4The reward that Yahweh gives to those who are humble and who revere him is that he causes them to be rich and honored and to live for a long time.

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Cross References

Exodus 9:21But those who did not pay any attention to what Yahweh had said left their slaves and their animals in the fields.

Proverbs 7:22And he went with her immediately, like an ox that was going to where it would be slaughtered, or like a deer (OR, a fool) that is stepping into a noose/trap,

Proverbs 14:16Wise people are careful and avoid doing things that will give them trouble; foolish people are careless and act ◄too quickly/without thinking►.

Proverbs 29:1Some people remain stubborn [IDM] even though they are often reproved/warned about doing what is wrong, but some day they will be crushed/ruined, and nothing will be able to heal them.

Matthew 24:15“ But before the world ends, the disgusting person who will defile the holy Temple and cause people to abandon it will stand in the Temple. Daniel the prophet spoke and wrote about that long ago. May everyone who reads this pay attention to the following warning from me:

Hebrews 6:18He did that to strongly encourage us as a result of our knowing that God has done two things that cannot change. Namely, he promised to bless us, and he solemnly declared that he would declare himself guilty if he did not bless us. We know that God, who did those things, cannot lie. We have fled to him in order that we might continue confidently to expect to receive what he promised 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 →

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