12. यदि तू बुद्धिमान हो, ते बुद्धि का फल तू ही भोगेगा; और यदि तू ठट्ठा करे, तो दण्ड केवल तू ही भोगेगा।।
12. Son, if you are wise for yourself, you shall also be wise for your neighbors; and if you should prove wicked, you alone will bear the evil. [ 9:12A] He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight: [ 9:12B] for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own cart to go astray; [ 9:12C] and he goes through a dry desert, and [a land] appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.