Proverbs 9:12 - Tree of Life Version If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you scoff, you bear it alone. 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. |
“Reconcile now with Him and have shalom— in this way prosperity will come to you.
A backsliding heart partakes of its ways, and a good man is rewarded for his.
A laborer’s appetite works on his behalf, for his hunger drives him on.
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and floggings for the back of fools.
So now, stop your scoffing, lest your shackles be strengthened! For I have heard from Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot of destruction determined upon the whole land.
The soul that sins, he will die. The son will not bear the iniquity of the father with him, nor will the father bear the iniquity of the son with him. The righteousness of the righteous will be on him and the wickedness of the wicked will be on him.
Each of the remaining clans will mourn by itself and their wives by themselves.”
He speaks about these matters in all of his letters. Some things in them are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist (as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures)—to their own destruction.