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Proverbs 9

Prov. 9:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ifh thou be wise
chakam (Hebrew #2449)
a primitive root, to be wise (in mind, word or act)
KJV usage: X exceeding, teach wisdom, be (make self, shew self) wise, deal (never so) wisely, make wiser.
Pronounce: khaw-kam'
, thou shalt be wise
chakam (Hebrew #2449)
a primitive root, to be wise (in mind, word or act)
KJV usage: X exceeding, teach wisdom, be (make self, shew self) wise, deal (never so) wisely, make wiser.
Pronounce: khaw-kam'
for thyself: but if thou scornest
luwts (Hebrew #3887)
properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede
KJV usage: ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher.
Pronounce: loots
Origin: a primitive root
, thou alone shalt bear
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
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Job 35:6‑7• 6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
 7If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand? (Job 35:6‑7)
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Ezek. 18:20• 20The 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. (Ezek. 18:20)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 16:26• 26The appetite of the labourer laboureth for him, for his mouth urgeth him on. (Prov. 16:26)
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Job 22:2‑3,21• 2Can a man be profitable to *God? surely it is unto himself that the wise man is profitable.
 3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if thou art righteous? And is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect?
 21Reconcile thyself now with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. (Job 22:2‑3,21)
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Job 35:6‑7• 6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
 7If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand? (Job 35:6‑7)
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Isa. 28:22• 22Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts a consumption, and one determined, upon the whole land. (Isa. 28:22)
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Ezek. 18:20• 20The 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. (Ezek. 18:20)
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2 Peter 3:3‑4,16• 3knowing this first, that there shall come at the close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,
 4and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from the beginning of the creation.
 16as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. (2 Peter 3:3‑4,16)
• Neither will God be the loser if the scorner persists in his senseless and foolhardy course. He alone shall bear it. Both in this life and the next, his folly shall be made manifest to himself and others. (“Proverbs Nine” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.