Proverbs 9:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 yourself with him, now, and be at shalom. Thereby good shall come to you.
The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
The appetite of the laboring man labors for him; for his mouth urges him on.
Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, the LORD of Armies, on the whole earth.
The soul who sins, he 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 on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.