Proverbs 9:12
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.

Young's Literal Translation
If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned—thyself bearest [it].

King James Bible
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it].

Hebrew
If
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you are wise,
חָ֭כַמְתָּ (ḥā·ḵam·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2449: To be wise

you are wise
חָכַ֣מְתָּ (ḥā·ḵam·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2449: To be wise

to your own advantage;
לָּ֑ךְ (lāḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

but if you scoff,
וְ֝לַ֗צְתָּ (wə·laṣ·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3887: Ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker

you alone
לְֽבַדְּךָ֥ (lə·ḇad·də·ḵā)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 905: Separation, a part of the body, branch of a, tree, bar for, carrying, chief of

will bear [the consequences].
תִשָּֽׂא׃ (ṯiś·śā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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