Proverbs 22:3

The prudent foresee danger and take cover, while the naive walk on and suffer. It matters because wisdom anticipates and avoids harm.

Cross-references · 12

• Prov 27:12The prudent see danger and take cover; but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
• Prov 14:16A wise man fears and turns from evil, but a fool is careless and reckless.
• Prov 29:1A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
• 1 Th 5:2–6For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
• Heb 11:7By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
• Prov 7:7I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,
• Prov 7:22–23He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
• Isa 26:20–21Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
• Exod 9:20–21Those among Pharaoh’s officials who feared the word of the LORD hurried to bring their servants and livestock to shelter,
• Heb 6:18Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
• Prov 9:16–18“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.
• Matt 24:15–18So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),

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