Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
And if you
King James Version
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
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.
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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Luwts
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 9:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Foolishness' Banquet
11
For by me (wisdom from God) your days will be multiplied,
And years of life shall be increased.
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.
The foolish woman is restless and noisy;
She is naive and easily misled and thoughtless, and knows nothing at all [of eternal value].
Phrases
Cross References
Job 22:2-3
“Can a vigorous man be of use to God,
Or a wise man be useful to himself?
Job 22:21
“Now yield and submit yourself to Him [agree with God and be conformed to His will] and be at peace;
In this way [you will prosper and great] good will come to you.
Job 35:6-7
“If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what have you done to Him?
Proverbs 16:26
The appetite of a worker works for him,
For his hunger urges him on.
Isaiah 28:22
Now do not carry on as scoffers,
Or the bands which bind you will be made stronger;
For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts [a decree]
Of decisive destruction on all the earth.
Ezekiel 18:20
The person who sins [is the one that] will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the sin of the father, nor will the father bear the punishment for the sin of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on himself.
2 Peter 3:3-4
First of all, know [without any doubt] that mockers will come in the last days with their mocking, following after their own human desires
2 Peter 3:16
speaking about these things as he does in all of his letters. In which there are some things that are difficult to understand, which the untaught and unstable [who have fallen into error] twist and misinterpret, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.