நீ ஞானியானால் உனக்கென்று ஞானியாவாய்; நீ பரியாசக்காரனானால் நீயே அதின் பயனை அநுபவிப்பாய் என்றும் சொல்லுகிறது.
Other Translations
King James Version (KJV)
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
American Standard Version (ASV)
If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself; And if thou scoffest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Bible in Basic English (BBE)
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if your heart is full of pride, you only will have the pain of it.
Darby English Bible (DBY)
If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
World English Bible (WEB)
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
Young’s Literal Translation (YLT)
If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned — thyself bearest `it’.
Cross Reference
Job 22:21
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
Job 35:6
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Proverbs 16:26
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
Isaiah 28:22
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
Ezekiel 18:20
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
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2 Peter 3:16
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Job 22:2
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
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