Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man forsees the evil, and hides himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Updated King James 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 poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
4By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, 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 goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Proverbs 14:16A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.
Proverbs 29:1He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Matthew 24:15When all of you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso reads, let him understand:)
Hebrews 6:18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before 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 →