Bible verse

Proverbs 22:3

The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.

Proverbs 22:3 · BSB

Proverbs 22:3 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 22.

1 A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.

2 The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.

3 The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.

4 The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.

5 Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.

6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

Read all of Proverbs 22

Proverbs 22:3 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

ERV

A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

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