Proverbs 22:3
The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
In Context
2Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all [is] Jehovah.
4The end of humility [is] the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life.
Cross References
Exodus 9:21and he who hath not set his heart unto the word of Jehovah leaveth his servants and his cattle in the field.
Proverbs 7:22He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,
Proverbs 14:16The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.
Proverbs 29:1A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.
Matthew 24:15'Whenever, therefore, ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever is reading let him observe)
Hebrews 6:18that through two immutable things, in which [it is] impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on 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 →