Proverbs 9:12 {13}
Good News Translation
You are the one who will profit if you have wisdom, and if you reject it, you are the one who will suffer.

New Revised Standard Version
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

Contemporary English Version
Good sense is good for you, but if you brag, you hurt yourself.

New American Bible
If you are wise, wisdom is to your advantage; if you are arrogant, you alone shall bear it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,

Proverbs 16:26 The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it.

Job 22:2,3,21 Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge? . . .

Job 35:6,7 If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him? . . .

Isaiah 28:22 And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon all the earth.

Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, the same shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the iniquity of the son: the justice of the just shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

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

Context
The Way of Wisdom
11If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil. 12A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,
Cross References
Galatians 6:5
For every one shall bear his own burden.

Job 22:2
Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?

Job 35:7
And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?

Proverbs 14:14
A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be above him.

Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools.

Proverbs 9:11
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