Proverbs 9:12

Proverbs chapter 9 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.11For by me thy days shall be multiplied, And the years of thy life shall be increased.

v.12This passage

v.13The foolish woman is clamorous; She is simple, and knoweth nothing.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Isaiah 28:22
Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth.
2 Peter 3:3
knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,
Proverbs 16:26
The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him; For his mouth urgeth him thereto.
Job 22:21
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: Thereby good shall come unto thee.
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Job 35:6
If thou hast sinned, what effectest thou against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?