Proverbs 9:12
If you have been wise, you have been wise for yourself, || And you have scorned—you bear [it] alone.
Literal Standard 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 multiply, || And years of life are added to you.
13A foolish woman [is] noisy, || Simple, and has not known what.
Cross References
Job 19:4And also—truly, I have erred, || My error remains with me.
Job 22:3Is it a delight to the Mighty One || That you are righteous? Is it gain, || That you make your ways perfect?
Job 35:6If you have sinned, what do you do against Him? And your transgressions have been multiplied, || What do you do to Him?
Isaiah 28:22And now, do not show yourselves scorners, || Lest your bands are strong, || For a consumption, that is determined, || I have heard, by the Lord, YHWH of Hosts, || [Is] for all the land.
Zechariah 12:14All the families that are left, || Every family apart, and their women apart!”
2 Peter 3:16as also in all the letters, speaking in them concerning these things, among which are some things [that are] hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable twist, as also the other Writings, 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 →