Proverbs 9:12
If thou are wise, thou are wise for thyself. And if thou scoff, thou alone shall bear it.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
In Context
11For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
13The foolish woman is clamorous, simple, and knows nothing.
Cross References
Job 19:4And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
Job 22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou are righteous? Or is it gain [to him] that thou make thy ways perfect?
Job 35:6If thou have sinned, what do thou effect against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what do thou to him?
Isaiah 28:22Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong. For I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, LORD of hosts, upon the whole earth.
Zechariah 12:14all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
2 Peter 3:16as also in all his letters, speaking in them about these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 9:2-13
The Invitation of Wisdom. 1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: 2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. 3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. 7 He that… Read the whole commentary →