Proverbs 9:12 - The Scriptures 1998

¹² If you have become wise, You have become wise for yourself, And if you have scoffed, You alone bear it.

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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 I have truly gone astray, my straying remains with me.

Job 22:21

Be of service to Him, and be at peace; thereby blessing shall come to you.

Proverbs 14:14

The backslider in heart is satisfied with his own ways, But a good man is satisfied from his.

Proverbs 16:26

He who labours, labours for himself, For his mouth drives him on.

Proverbs 19:29

Judgments are in store for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.

Isaiah 28:22

And now, do not be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong. For I have heard from the Master יהוה  of hosts, a destruction decreed upon all the earth.

Ezekiel 18:20

“The being who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the crookedness of the father, nor the father bear the crookedness of the son. The righteousness of the righteous is upon himself, and the wrongness of the wrong is upon himself.

Zechariah 12:14

all the rest of the clans, every clan by itself, and their women by themselves.

Galatians 6:5

For each one shall bear his own burden.

2 Peter 3:16

as also in all his letters, speaking in them concerning these matters, in which some are hard to understand, which those who are untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do also the other Scriptures.