Proverbs 9:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־חָ֭כַמְתָּ חָכַ֣מְתָּ לָּ֑ךְ וְ֝לַ֗צְתָּ לְֽבַדְּךָ֥ תִשָּֽׂא׃

Transliteration

ʾim-ḥākamtā ḥākamtā lāk wlaṣtā lbaddkā tiśśāʾ

Grammar Details

• *ʾim-ḥākamtā*: conjunction with Qal perfect 2nd masculine singular - if you are wise
• *ḥākamtā*: Qal perfect 2nd masculine singular - you are wise
• *lāk*: preposition with 2nd masculine singular suffix - for yourself
• *wlaṣtā*: conjunction with Qal perfect 2nd masculine singular - and if you scoff
• *lbaddkā*: preposition with noun and 2nd masculine singular suffix - by yourself alone
• *tiśśāʾ*: Qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will bear

Word Meanings

• *ḥākamtā*: you are wise/have become wise
• *lāk*: for yourself/to your benefit
• *laṣtā*: you scoff/mock/scorn
• *lbaddkā*: by yourself alone/you alone
• *tiśśāʾ*: you will bear/carry/suffer

Referenced Verses

• Job 22:2-3 : 2 Can a man be profitable unto God? Surely he that is wise is profitable unto himself. 3 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 : 21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: Thereby good shall come unto thee.
• Job 35:6-7 : 6 If thou hast sinned, what effectest thou against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? 7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what receiveth he of thy hand?
• Prov 16:26 : 26 The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him; For his mouth urgeth him [thereto].
• Isa 28:22 : 22 Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth.
• Ezek 18:20 : 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 Pet 3:3-4 : 3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts, 4 and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
• 2 Pet 3:16 : 16 as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein {G1722} are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.