Proverbs 27:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

Cross References

Proverbs 18:10

The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the upright man running into it is safe.

Proverbs 22:3

The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

Proverbs 27:11

My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

Proverbs 27:13

Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.

Hebrews 6:18

So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

2 Peter 3:7

But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.