Proverbs 9:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned -- thyself bearest `it'.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 22:2-3 : 2 To God is a man profitable, Because a wise man to himself is profitable? 3 Is it a delight to the Mighty One That thou art righteous? is it gain, That thou makest perfect thy ways?
  • Job 22:21 : 21 Acquaint thyself, I pray thee, with Him, And be at peace, Thereby thine increase `is' good.
  • Job 35:6-7 : 6 If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him? 7 If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?
  • Prov 16:26 : 26 A labouring man hath laboured for himself, For his mouth hath caused `him' to bend over it.
  • Isa 28:22 : 22 And now, show not yourselves scorners, Lest strong be your bands, For a consumption, that is determined, I have heard, by the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, `Is' for all the land.
  • Ezek 18:20 : 20 The soul that doth sin -- it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.
  • 2 Pet 3:3-4 : 3 this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on, 4 and saying, `Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;'
  • 2 Pet 3:16 : 16 as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.

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