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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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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 16:26• 26The appetite of the labouring man laboureth for him,{HR}For his mouth urgeth him on. (Prov. 16:26)
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Job 22:2‑3,21• 2Can a man [a hero] then profit God?{HR}For, being wise, he profiteth himself.
3[Is it] then a pleasure to the Almighty if thou art righteous,{HR}And gain if thou makest thy ways perfect?
21Acquaint thyself, I pray thee, with him, and be at peace;{HR}Thereby shall good come to thee.
(Job 22:2‑3,21)
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Job 35:6‑7• 6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him?{HR}Thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?
7If thou art righteous, what givest thou to him?{HR}Or what receiveth he from thy hand?
(Job 35:6‑7)
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Isa. 28:22• 22Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts, a consumption, and [one] determined upon the whole earth. (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 in the last of the days mockers shall come with mockery walking according to their own lusts,
4and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the [day] that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue thus from beginning of creation.
16as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which [epistles] some things are hard to understand, which the untaught and unestablished wrest, as also the rest of the 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself;{HR}And [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it].