Proverbs 9:12 If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.

New American Standard Bible
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, And if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

King James Bible
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you are wise, you are wise for your own benefit; 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.

American Standard Version
If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself; And if thou scoffest, thou alone shalt bear it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.

Darby Bible Translation
If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

Young's Literal Translation
If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned -- thyself bearest it.

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Context

The Way of Wisdom

1Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars: 2She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine; she has also furnished her table. 3She has sent forth her maidens: she cries on the highest places of the city, 4Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that wants understanding, she said to him, 5Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. 6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. 7He that reproves a scorner gets to himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot. 8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you. 9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. 10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. 11For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased. 12If you be wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.

Cross References

Galatians 6:5
For every man shall bear his own burden.

Job 22:2
Can a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself?

Job 35:7
If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?

Proverbs 14:14
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

Treasury of Scripture

If you be wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.

Proverbs 16:26 He that labors labors for himself; for his mouth craves it of him.

Job 22:2,3,21 Can a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself...

Job 35:6,7 If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him...

Isaiah 28:22 Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption...

Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father...

2 Peter 3:3,4,16 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts...

Strong's Concordance

If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it].

Topical Bible

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