THEOSISProverbs 9:12Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.
אִם־חָ֭כַמְתָּ חָכַ֣מְתָּ לָּ֑ךְ וְ֝לַ֗צְתָּ לְֽבַדְּךָ֥ תִשָּֽׂא׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Job 22:2Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?
- Job 22:3What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?
- Ezek 18:20The soul that sinneth, the same shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the iniquity of the son: the justice of the just shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
- 2 Pet 3:3Knowing this first: That in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
- 2 Pet 3:4Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? For since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
- Job 22:21Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.
- Prov 16:26The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it.
- Isa 28:22And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon all the earth.