Proverbs 27:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and are punished.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished [with suffering].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Common English Bible

¹² Prudent people see evil and hide; the simpleminded go right to it and get punished.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² The discerning man, seeing evil, hides himself. The little ones, continuing on, sustain losses.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.

Proverbs 27:12 Cross References

Proverbs 18:10

The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.

Proverbs 22:3

A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.

Proverbs 27:11

Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.

Proverbs 27:13

Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, took heed and constructed an ark for the saving of his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.

Hebrews 6:18

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God should prove false, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.

2 Peter 3:7

But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist have been stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.