Parallel Verses
King James Version
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
New American Standard Bible
And if you
Holman Bible
if you mock, you alone will bear the consequences.”
International Standard Version
If you are wise, your wisdom will assist you. If you mock, you alone will be held responsible.
A Conservative Version
If thou are wise, thou are wise for thyself. And if thou scoff, thou alone shall bear it.
American Standard Version
If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself; And if thou scoffest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Amplified
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself [for your own benefit];
If you scoff [thoughtlessly ridicule and disdain], you alone will pay the penalty.
Bible in Basic English
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if your heart is full of pride, you only will have the pain of it.
Darby Translation
If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Julia Smith Translation
If thou wert wise, thou wert wise for thyself: and thou mockedst, thou alone shalt suffer.
King James 2000
If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scoff, you alone shall bear it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, and [if] you scoff, alone you shall bear [it].
Modern King James verseion
If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself; but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If thou be wise, thy wisdom shall do thyself good: but if thou thinkest scorn thereof, it shall be thine own harm.
NET Bible
If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you are a mocker, you alone must bear it.
New Heart English Bible
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
The Emphasized Bible
If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself, but, if thou scoff, alone, shalt thou bear it.
Webster
If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
World English Bible
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
Youngs Literal Translation
If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned -- thyself bearest it.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 9:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Foolishness' Banquet
11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. 12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it. 13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 22:2-3
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
Job 22:21
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
Job 35:6-7
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Proverbs 16:26
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
Isaiah 28:22
Now therefore be ye 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.
Ezekiel 18:20
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
2 Peter 3:3-4
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2 Peter 3:16
As 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 wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.