Proverbs 9:12

In 11 translations

BSB

If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.

KJV

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

WEB

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

ASV

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

LSV

If you have been wise, you have been wise for yourself, || And you have scorned—you bear [it] alone.

YLT

If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned — thyself bearest [it].

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thy selfe, and if thou be a scorner, thou alone shalt suffer.

JPS

If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself; and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.'

LXXE

Son, if thou be wise for thyself, thou shalt also be wise for thy neighbours; and if thou shouldest prove wicked, thou alone wilt bear the evil. He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their flight: for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray; and he goes through a dry desert, and a land appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.Heb. — to beginning of verse 13.

Word by word Hebrew · tap a word

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

אִם־חָ֭כַמְתָּ חָכַ֣מְתָּ לָּ֑ךְ וְ֝לַ֗צְתָּ לְֽבַדְּךָ֥ תִשָּֽׂא׃

LXX-Br

Υἱὲ ἐὰν σοφὸς γένῃ σεαυτῷ, σοφὸς ἔσῃ καὶ τοῖς πλησίον· ἐὰν δὲ κακὸς ἀποβῇς, μόνος ἂν ἀντλήσεις κακά· ὃς ἐρείδεται ἐπὶ ψεύδεσιν, οὗτος ποιμαίνει ἀνέμους, ὁ δʼ αὐτὸς διώξεται ὄρνεα πετόμενα· ἀπέλιπε γὰρ ὁδοὺς τοῦ ἑαυτοῦ ἀμπελῶνος, τοὺς δὲ ἄξονας τοῦ ἰδίου γεωργίου πεπλάνηται· διαπορεύεται δὲ διʼ ἀνύδρου ἐρήμου, καὶ γῆν διατεταγμένην ἐν διψώδεσι, συνάγει δὲ χερσὶν ἀκαρπίαν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Job 22:2–3“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him? Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?
• 2 Peter 3:3–4Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. “Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep,…
• Ezekiel 18:20The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the…
• Job 22:21Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.
• Proverbs 16:26A worker’s appetite works for him because his hunger drives him onward.
• Job 35:6–7If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him? If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
• Isaiah 28:22So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.
• 2 Peter 3:16He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).