Proverbs 22:3 - The Scriptures 2009

³ A clever one foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple go on and are punished.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: But the simple pass on, and are punished.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished [with suffering].

American Standard Version (1901)

³ A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Common English Bible

³ Prudent people see trouble and hide, while the simpleminded go right to it and get punished.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ The clever saw evil and hid himself. The innocent continued on and was afflicted with damage.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ The prudent man saw the evil, and hid himself: the simple passed on, and suffered loss.

Proverbs 22:3 Cross References

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, you simple ones, Would you love simplicity, And shall scoffers delight in their scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 14:16

The wise fears and turns away from evil, But a fool rushes on and is reckless.

Proverbs 22:4

The reward of humility is the fear of יהוה, Riches, and esteem and life.

Proverbs 27:12

A clever man foresees calamity, hides himself; The simple shall go on, they are punished.

Proverbs 29:1

One often reproved, hardening his neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

Proverbs 7:7

And I saw among the simple, I perceived among the youths, A young man lacking heart,

Hebrews 11:7

By belief, Noaḥ, having been warned of what was yet unseen, having feared, prepared an ark to save his house, through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to belief.

Hebrews 6:18

so that by two unchangeable matters in which it is impossible for Elohim to lie, we might have strong encouragement, we who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the expectation set before us,