Proverbs 9:12 - Tree of Life Version

¹² If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you scoff, you bear it alone.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Job 19:4

But even if it is true that I have erred, my error remains with me.

Job 22:21

“Reconcile now with Him and have shalom— in this way prosperity will come to you.

Proverbs 14:14

A backsliding heart partakes of its ways, and a good man is rewarded for his.

Proverbs 16:26

A laborer’s appetite works on his behalf, for his hunger drives him on.

Proverbs 19:29

Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and floggings for the back of fools.

Isaiah 28:22

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.

Ezekiel 18:20

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.

Zechariah 12:14

Each of the remaining clans will mourn by itself and their wives by themselves.”

Galatians 6:5

For each one will carry his own load.

2 Peter 3:16

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.