Proverbs 9:12
If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 shall thy days be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.
13A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,
Cross References
Job 19:4For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.
Job 22:3What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?
Job 35:6If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him?
Isaiah 28:22And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon all the earth.
Zechariah 12:14All the rest of the families, families and families apart, and their women apart.
2 Peter 3:16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do 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 →