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If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it].

If thou be wise {H2449}, thou shalt be wise {H2449} for thyself: but if thou scornest {H3887}, thou alone shalt bear {H5375} it.

If you are wise, your wisdom helps you; but if you scoff, you bear the consequences alone."

If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.

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

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Cross-References

  • Job 22:2 (5 votes)

    Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

  • Job 22:3 (5 votes)

    [Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or [is it] gain [to him], that thou makest thy ways perfect?

  • Ezekiel 18:20 (4 votes)

    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 Peter 3:3 (4 votes)

    ¶ Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

  • 2 Peter 3:4 (4 votes)

    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.

  • Job 22:21 (4 votes)

    ¶ Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

  • Proverbs 16:26 (3 votes)

    ¶ He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.