Proverbs 9:12
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.
- KJV
- If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
- WEB
- If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
- ASV
- If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself; And if thou scoffest, thou alone shalt bear it.
- DARBY
- If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
- BLB
- If you have been wise, you have been wise for yourself, and [if] you have scoffed, you will bear [it] for yourself alone.
- ÅB
- Er du vis, så er du vis til ditt eget gagn, og er du en spotter, skal du alene lide for det.
- OTB
- Hvis du er vis, gagner din visdom deg; hvis du spotter, må du bære det alene.
- B1930
- Er du vis, så er du vis til ditt eget gagn, og er du en spotter, skal du alene lide for det.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 22:2–3
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
Read in contextEzekiel 18:20
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Read in context2 Peter 3:3–4
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
Read in contextJob 22:21
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
Read in contextProverbs 16:26
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
Read in context2 Peter 3:16
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Read in contextJob 35:6–7
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Read in contextIsaiah 28:22
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
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