Proverbs 9:12
If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself, but, if thou scoff, alone, shalt thou bear it.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, shall be multiplied—thy days, and there be added to thee—the years of life.
13The woman Stupidity, is boisterous, so simple that she knoweth not what she would do;
Cross References
Job 19:4And even if indeed I have erred, with myself lodgeth mine error.
Job 22:3Is it a pleasure to the Almighty, that thou shouldst be righteous? or any profit, that thou shouldst be blameless in thy ways?
Job 35:6If thou sinnest, what canst thou work against him? Or, if thy transgressions be multiplied, what canst thou do unto him?
Isaiah 28:22Now, therefore do not show yourselves scoffers, Lest your fetters, be bound fast,—For, of a full end, and that a decreed one, have I heard from My Lord, Yahweh of hosts upon all the land
Zechariah 12:14All the families that remain, family by family, apart,—and their wives, apart.
2 Peter 3:16As also, in all letters, speaking in them concerning these things,—in which [letters] are some things, hard to be understood, which, the uninstructed and unstable, wrest,—as also the other scriptures,—unto 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 →