Proverbs 9:12 - New Revised Standard Version If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, 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. |
The perverse get what their ways deserve, and the good, what their deeds deserve.
Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and flogging for the backs of fools.
Now therefore do not scoff, or your bonds will be made stronger; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land.
The person who sins shall die. A child shall not suffer for the iniquity of a parent, nor a parent suffer for the iniquity of a child; the righteousness of the righteous shall be his own, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be his own.
and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.
speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.