"If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but {if} thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear {it}." — Proverbs 9:12

Proverbs 9:12 · KJV

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

— Proverbs 9:12

Verse 11

For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

Verse 13

A foolish woman {is} clamorous: {she is} simple, and knoweth nothing.

Proverbs 9 — Context

The fear of the LORD {is} the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy {is} understanding.

For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

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

A foolish woman {is} clamorous: {she is} simple, and knoweth nothing.

For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

Cross References

Job 22:2-3

Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? {as he...: or, if he may be profitable, doth his good success depend thereon?}

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,

Job 22:21

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. {him: that is, God}

Proverbs 16:26

He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him. {He...: Heb. The soul of him that} {craveth...: Heb. boweth unto 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.

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.

Job 35:6-7

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or {if} thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?