Proverbs 9:12
If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Darby Translation
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 years of life shall be added to thee.
13The foolish woman is clamorous; she is stupid, and knoweth nothing.
Cross References
Job 19:4And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
Job 22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if thou art righteous? And is it gain [to him] that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Job 35:6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Isaiah 28:22Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts a consumption, and [one] determined, upon the whole land.
Zechariah 12:14all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
2 Peter 3:16as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, 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 →