Proverbs 9:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, 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, as he that is wise may be 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 sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? 7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
• Prov 16:26 : 26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
• Isa 28:22 : 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.
• 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 there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 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 Pet 3:16 : 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.