Proverbs 9:12
If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.
Berean Standard Bible
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 through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
13The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.
Cross References
Job 19:4Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
Job 22:3Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?
Job 35:6If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
Isaiah 28:22So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.
Zechariah 12:14and all the remaining clans and their wives.
2 Peter 3:16He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the 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 →