Bible verse
If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.
Proverbs 9:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 9.
8 Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
9 Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
11 For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
12 If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.
13 The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.
14 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,
15 calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight.
16 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.
KJV
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it].
ASV
If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself; And if thou scoffest, thou alone shalt bear it.
ERV
If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself: and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
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