Proverbs 9:12New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, And if you scoff, you alone will bear it.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it].
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself: and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself; And if thou scoffest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it].
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself, but, if thou scoff, alone, shalt thou bear it.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned—thyself bearest [it].
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thy selfe, and if thou be a scorner, thou alone shalt suffer.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thy selfe: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt beare it.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— My son, if you are wise, you are wise for yourself and for your friends; but if you are evil-minded, you alone shall bear your evils;
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— 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 fight: 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.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it]. |
If
x518 (0518) Complementאִם'im{eem}
A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogitive, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence as a negative, not.
thou be wise,
2449 {2449} Primeחָכַםchakam{khaw-kam'}
A primitive root, to be wise (in mind, word or act).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
thou shalt be wise
2449 {2449} Primeחָכַםchakam{khaw-kam'}
A primitive root, to be wise (in mind, word or act).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
for thyself: but [ if] thou scornest,
3887 {3887} Primeלוּץluwts{loots}
A primitive root; properly to make mouths at, that is, to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede.
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
thou alone
x905 (0905) Complementבַּדbad{bad}
From H0909; properly separation; by implication a part of the body, branch of a tree, bar for carrying; figuratively chief of a city; especially (with prepositional prefix) as adverb, apart, only, besides.
shalt bear
5375 {5375} Primeנָשָׂאnasa'{naw-saw'}
A primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, absolutely and relatively.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
[ it]. |
Proverbs 9:12
_ _ You are mainly concerned in your own conduct. |
Proverbs 9:12
For thyself — Thou dost not profit me but thyself. |
Proverbs 9:12
If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for (k) thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it].
(k) You will have the chief profit and convenience of it. |
Proverbs 16:26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
Job 22:2- 3 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? ... [ Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or [ is it] gain [ to him], that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Job 22:21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
Job 35:6- 7 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or [ if] thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? ... If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
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.
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, ... And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [ they were] from the beginning of the creation.
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.
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