Proverbs 9:12 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹² If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.

Proverbs 9:12 Tagairtí Cros

Job 19:4

And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

Job 22:21

“Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.

Proverbs 14:14

A perverse man will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man with the fruit of his deeds.

Proverbs 16:26

A worker's appetite works for him; his mouth urges him on.

Proverbs 19:29

Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and flogging for the backs of fools.

Isaiah 28:22

Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land.

Ezekiel 18:20

The soul that sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Zechariah 12:14

and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.

Galatians 6:5

For each man will have to bear his own load.

2 Peter 3:16

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.