Charles Ellicott Commentary Proverbs 22:3

"A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it." — Proverbs 22:3 (ASV)

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. .