Proverbs 9:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself: And if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: But if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself; And if thou scoffest, thou alone shalt bear it. Common English Bible If you are wise, it is to your benefit; if you are cynical, you will bear it all alone. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil. |
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: Thereby good shall come unto thee.
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
The appetite of the labouring man laboureth for him; For his mouth craveth it of him.
Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bands be made strong: for a consummation, and that determined, have I heard from the Lord, the LORD of hosts, upon the whole earth.
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.
all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.