Proverbs 27:12
Good News Translation
Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.

New Revised Standard Version
The clever see danger and hide; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.

Contemporary English Version
Be cautious and hide when you see danger--don't be stupid and walk right into trouble.

New American Bible
The astute see an evil and hide; the naive continue on and pay the penalty.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Proverbs 18:10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the just runneth to it, and shall be exalted.

Proverbs 22:3 The prudent man saw the evil, and hid himself: the simple passed on, and suffered loss.

Exodus 9:20,21 He that feared the word of the Lord among Pharao's servants, made his servants and his cattle flee into houses: . . .

Psalm 57:1-3 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into the cave. [2] Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me: for my soul trusteth in thee. And in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, until iniquity pass away. . . .

Isaiah 26:20,21 Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon thee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass away. . . .

Matthew 3:7 And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us.

Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noe, having received an answer concerning those things which as yet were not seen, moved with fear, framed the ark for the saving of his house: by the which he condemned the world and was instituted heir of the justice which is by faith.

2 Peter 3:7,10-14 But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of the ungodly men. . . .

Context
Do not Boast about Tomorrow
11Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth. 12The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.13Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.…
Cross References
Proverbs 22:3
The prudent man saw the evil, and hid himself: the simple passed on, and suffered loss.

Proverbs 27:11
Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth.

Proverbs 27:13
Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.

Proverbs 27:11
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