Proverbs 9:12
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.
Catholic Public Domain 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, your days will be multiplied and years of life will be added to you.
13A foolish and loud woman, who is full of enticements and who knows nothing at all,
Cross References
Job 19:4Now, of course, if I have been ignorant, my ignorance will be with me.
Job 22:3What advantage is it to God, if you were just? Or what do you provide for him, if your way should be immaculate?
Job 35:6If you sin, how will it hurt him? And if your iniquities are multiplied, what will you do against him?
Isaiah 28:22And now, do not be willing to mock, lest your chains be tightened. For I have heard, from the Lord, the God of hosts, about the consummation and the abridgement concerning the entire earth.
Zechariah 12:14all the rest of the families, families and families separately, and their women separately.
2 Peter 3:16just as he also spoke in all of his epistles about these things. In these, there are certain things which are difficult to understand, which the unlearned and the unsteady distort, as they also do 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 →