Proverbs 9:12
If you be wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.
Updated King James 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 shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.
13A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knows nothing.
Cross References
Job 19:4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remains with myself.
Job 22:3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? or is it gain to him, that you make your ways perfect?
Job 35:6If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you unto him?
Isaiah 28:22Now therefore be all of you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
Zechariah 12:14All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
2 Peter 3:16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable shift, as they do 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 →