Proverbs 22:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself, as the Israelites hid themselves within their houses from the destroying angel, Noah within the Ark, the Christians before the fall of Jerusalem (Luke 21:21) in Pella. (Comp. Isaiah 26:20.)

Proverbs 22:3

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