Proverbs 9:12
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
World English Bible British
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 will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.
13The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and knows nothing.
Cross References
Job 19:4If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
Job 22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
Job 35:6If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
Isaiah 28:22Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, GOD of Armies, on the whole earth.
Zechariah 12:14all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
2 Peter 3:16as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to 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 →