Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man, seeth calamity, and hideth himself, but, the simple, pass on, and suffer.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, the maker of them all, is Yahweh.
4The reward of humility, is the reverence of Yahweh, riches, and honour, and life.
Cross References
Exodus 9:21but, whoso applied not his heart unto the word of Yahweh, left his servants and his cattle in the field.
Proverbs 7:22Going after her instantly, as an ox, to the slaughter, he entereth, and, as in fetters, unto the correction of a fool.
Proverbs 14:16A wise man, feareth, and avoideth evil, but, a dullard, is haughty and confident.
Proverbs 29:1He that being often reproved stiffeneth his neck, suddenly shall be hurt, and there be no healing.
Matthew 24:15Whensoever, therefore, ye shall see the abomination desolation, that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place,—he that readeth, let him think,
Hebrews 6:18In order that, through means of two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible for God to make himself false, a mighty consolation, we might have, who have fled along to grasp, the fore-lying hope,
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 →