Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself; but if you scorn, you alone shall 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 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.
The Emphasized Bible
If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself, but, if thou scoff, alone, shalt thou 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 your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased. 12 If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself; but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it. 13 A foolish woman is noisy; she is simple and knows nothing.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 22:2-3
Can a man be useful to God, as he who is wise may be useful to himself?
Job 22:21
Now be of service with Him, and be at peace. Good shall come to you by them.
Job 35:6-7
If you sin, what do you do against Him? Or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?
Proverbs 16:26
He who labors works for himself, for his mouth craves it from him.
Isaiah 28:22
So then do not be mockers, lest your bands be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of Hosts that a full end is decreed on all the earth.
Ezekiel 18:20
The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
2 Peter 3:3-4
First, knowing this, that there will come in the last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction).