Proverbs 9:12 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 9. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 9:12

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 9:1-12: Wisdom is here introduced as a magnificent and munificent queen, very great and very generous; that Word of God is this Wisdom in which God makes known his goodwill towards men; God the Word is this Wisdom, to whom the Father has committed all judgment.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 9:12: If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself,.... He is wise that harkens to Wisdom's advice, that obeys her call, turns in to her house, and becomes her guest; and such an one is wise for himself, it is for his own good, profit, and advantage; for the good of his soul, for his present peace and comfort, and for his future bliss and happiness.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 9:12: You are mainly concerned in your own conduct.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 9:12: If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it]. (k) You will have the chief profit and convenience of it.