Proverbs 9:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹² If you are wise, you are wise for your own benefit; if you mock, you alone will bear the consequences.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: But if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scorn, you alone will bear it and pay the penalty.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself; And if thou scoffest, thou alone shalt bear it.

Common English Bible

¹² If you are wise, it is to your benefit; if you are cynical, you will bear it all alone.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² If you would be wise, you will be so for yourself. But if you would be one who ridicules, you alone shall carry the evil.

Proverbs 9:12 Cross References

Job 19:4

Even if it is true that I have sinned, my mistake concerns only   me.

Job 22:21

Come to terms with God and be at peace; in this way  good will come to you.

Proverbs 14:14

The disloyal one will get what his conduct deserves, and a good one, what his deeds deserve.

Proverbs 16:26

A worker’s appetite works for him because his hunger  urges him on.

Proverbs 19:29

Judgements are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Isaiah 28:22

So now, do not scoff, or your shackles will become stronger. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord God of Armies a decree of destruction for the whole land.

Ezekiel 18:20

The person who sins is the one who will die.  A son won’t suffer punishment for the father’s iniquity, and a father won’t suffer punishment for the son’s iniquity.  The righteousness of the righteous person will be on him,  and the wickedness of the wicked person will be on him.

Zechariah 12:14

all the remaining families, every family by itself, and their women by themselves.

Galatians 6:5

For each person will have to carry his own load.

2 Peter 3:16

He speaks about these things in all his letters. There are some things hard to understand in them. The untaught and unstable will twist them to their own destruction,  as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.