Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself, but, if thou scoff, alone, shalt thou bear it.
New American Standard Bible
And if you
King James Version
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Holman Bible
if you mock, you alone will bear the consequences.”
International Standard Version
If you are wise, your wisdom will assist you. If you mock, you alone will be held responsible.
A Conservative Version
If thou are wise, thou are wise for thyself. And if thou scoff, thou alone shall bear it.
American Standard Version
If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself; And if thou scoffest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Amplified
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself [for your own benefit];
If you scoff [thoughtlessly ridicule and disdain], you alone will pay the penalty.
Bible in Basic English
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if your heart is full of pride, you only will have the pain of it.
Darby Translation
If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Julia Smith Translation
If thou wert wise, thou wert wise for thyself: and thou mockedst, thou alone shalt suffer.
King James 2000
If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scoff, you alone shall bear it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, and [if] you scoff, alone you shall bear [it].
Modern King James verseion
If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself; but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If thou be wise, thy wisdom shall do thyself good: but if thou thinkest scorn thereof, it shall be thine own harm.
NET Bible
If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you are a mocker, you alone must bear it.
New Heart English Bible
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
Webster
If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
World English Bible
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
Youngs Literal Translation
If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned -- thyself bearest it.
Topics
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Luwts
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 9:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Foolishness' Banquet
11 For, by me, shall be multiplied - thy days, and there be added to thee - the years of life. 12 If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself, but, if thou scoff, alone, shalt thou bear it. 13 The woman Stupidity, is boisterous, so simple that she knoweth not what she would do;
Phrases
Cross References
Job 22:2-3
Unto GOD, can a man act as friend? Surely a discreet man befriendeth himself!
Job 22:21
Shew thyself to be one with him - I pray thee - and prosper, thereby, shall there come on thee blessing.
Job 35:6-7
If thou sinnest, what canst thou work against him? Or, if thy transgressions be multiplied, what canst thou do unto him?
Proverbs 16:26
The appetite of the toiler, hath toiled for him, for his mouth, hath urged him on.
Isaiah 28:22
Now, therefore do not show yourselves scoffers, Lest your fetters, be bound fast, - For, of a full end, and that a decreed one, have I heard from My Lord, Yahweh of hosts upon all the land
Ezekiel 18:20
The person that sinneth, the same, shall die, - the son shall not bear a part of the iniquity of, the father, neither shall a father bear a part of the iniquity of the son, the righteousness of the righteous upon himself, shall be. And the lawlessness of a lawless man upon himself, shall be.
2 Peter 3:3-4
Of this, first, taking note - that there will come, in the last of the days, with scoffing, scoffers, after their own covetings, going on,
2 Peter 3:16
As also, in all letters, speaking in them concerning these things, - in which letters are some things, hard to be understood, which, the uninstructed and unstable, wrest, - as also the other scriptures, - unto their own destruction.