Proverbs 9:12
If you are wise, you are the one to profit from it; if you scoff, you alone will have to suffer the consequences.
Free Bible 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
11Through wisdom you'll have many more days, increasing the years of your life.
13Stupidity is like a loud, ignorant woman who doesn't know anything.
Cross References
Job 19:4Even if I did sin, that's my problem, and has nothing to do with you.
Job 22:3Is it any benefit to the Almighty if you're a good person? What does he gain if you do what's right?
Job 35:6If you sin, how does that harm God? How do your many sins affect God?
Isaiah 28:22So don't mock, or your imprisonment will be even worse, for the Lord, the Lord Almighty, has explained to me his decision to destroy the whole country.
Zechariah 12:14and all the surviving families and their women, each group mourning alone by themselves.
2 Peter 3:16He spoke about these things, though some of what he wrote is certainly hard to understand. Some ignorant and unbalanced people have twisted what he wrote to their own loss—just as they do other scriptures.
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 →