Proverbs 22:3

A fell man seeth evil, and hideth himself; and an innocent man passed, and he was tormented by harm. (A clever person seeth evil coming, and hideth himself; but a gullible person passed forth, or kept going, and so he was tormented by harm.)

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2A rich man and a poor man met themselves; the Lord is [the] worker of ever either. (A rich person and a poor person met together; the Lord is the Maker of both of them.)

4The end of temperance is the dread of the Lord; riches, and glory, and life. (The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord or is reverence for the Lord; along with riches, and glory, and life.)

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Cross References

Exodus 9:21soothly he that despised the Lord’s word, left his servants and his work beasts in the fields.

Proverbs 7:22Anon he as an ox led to slain sacrifice followeth her, and as a jolly lamb and unknowing; and the fool knoweth not, that he is drawn to bonds, (And so at once he followeth her, like an ox led away to be slain for the offering, and like a jolly, and unknowing, lamb; and the fool knoweth not, that he is drawn into bonds,)

Proverbs 14:16A wise man dreadeth, and boweth away from evil; a fool skippeth over, and trusteth.

Proverbs 29:1Sudden perishing shall come [up] on that man, that with hard noll, that is, (with) an obstinate soul, despiseth a blamer (or despiseth a rebuker); and health shall not follow him.

Matthew 24:15Therefore when ye see the abomination of discomfort, that is said of (or by) Daniel, the prophet, standing in the holy place; he that readeth (this), understand he;

Hebrews 6:18(so) that by two things unmoveable, by which it is impossible that God lie, we have (the) strongest solace, [or comfort], we that flee together to hold the hope that is put forth 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 →

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