Proverbs 27:12 (BSB)

The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.

From Proverbs 27. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 27:12

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 27:12: This we had before, Pro 22:3. Note, 1. Evil may be foreseen. Where there is temptation, it is easy to foresee that if we thrust ourselves into it there will be sin, and as easy to foresee that if we venture upon the evil of sin there will follow the evil of punishment; and, commonly, God warns before he wounds, having set watchmen over us, Jer 6:17. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 27:12: Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. See Gill on Pro 20:16, where the same proverb is, and is expressed in the same words as here. , where the same proverb is, and is expressed in the same words as here. Proverbs 27:14 pro 27:14 pro 27:14 pro 27:14He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice,....
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 27:12: A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished. (e)Read Geneva "Pr 22:3"
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 27:12: Pro 27:12 ערום appears to lean on חכם. The prudent man seeth the misfortune, hideth himself; The simple pass on, suffer injury. = Pro 22:3, where וּפתיים for פּתאים, ונסתּר for נסתּר, and ונענשׁוּ for נענשׁוּ; the three asyndeta make the proverb clumsy, as if it counted out its seven words separately to the hearer. Ewald, §349a, calls it a “Steinschrift” an inscription on a stone.