Proverbs 9:12
If you are wise, you are the one who will benefit from it; if you ridicule becoming wise, you are the one who will suffer.
Translation for Translators
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
11If you become wise, you will live many years [DOU].
13Foolish women talk loudly; they are ignorant and are never ashamed of the wrong things that they do.
Cross References
Job 19:4Even if it were true that I have done things that are wrong, I have not injured you!
Job 22:3If you were righteous, ◄would that benefit Almighty God?/that certainly would not benefit Almighty God.► [RHQ] If you had ◄lived a perfect life/never done anything that is wrong►, would that help him?
Job 35:6If you have sinned, that does not [RHQ] harm God at all. If many times you do things that are wrong, that certainly does not [RHQ] affect him [DOU].
Isaiah 28:22The Commander of the armies of angels has told me that he is going to destroy the entire land. So do not ridicule what I say any more, because if you do that he will punish you even more severely.
Zechariah 12:14and all the other members of the kings’ clans and the priests’ clans by themselves, and their wives by themselves.”
2 Peter 3:16In the letters that Paul wrote there are certain things that are difficult for people to understand. People who are spiritually ignorant and ◄unstable/do not believe firmly in Christ► interpret these things wrongly, as they also ◄interpret/explain the meaning of► the other parts of the Scriptures wrongly. The result is that they will destroy themselves spiritually, and God will punish them.
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 →