Proverbs 11:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 5:16 : 16 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.
  • Prov 14:19 : 19 The knees of the evil are bent before the good; and sinners go down in the dust at the doors of the upright.
  • Prov 15:27 : 27 He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
  • Hab 2:9-9 : 9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer! 10 You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.
  • Gen 34:30 : 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.
  • Josh 7:24-25 : 24 Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor. 25 And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.
  • 1 Sam 25:3 : 3 Now this man was named Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail: she was a woman of good sense and pleasing looks: but the man was cruel and evil in his ways; he was of the family of Caleb.
  • 1 Sam 25:17 : 17 So now, give thought to what you are going to do; for evil is in store for our master and all his house: for he is such a good-for-nothing person that it is not possible to say anything to him.
  • 1 Sam 25:38 : 38 And about ten days after, the Lord sent disease on Nabal and death came to him.

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    2A servant who does wisely will have rule over a son causing shame, and will have his part in the heritage among brothers.

  • Prov 15:5-6
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    11A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.

  • Prov 11:28
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    28He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.

  • Prov 17:25
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    13A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.

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  • Prov 14:24
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    24Their wisdom is a crown to the wise, but their foolish behaviour is round the head of the unwise.

  • Prov 14:33
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  • Prov 21:20
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    15The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.

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  • Prov 3:35
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  • Prov 14:17-18
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    17He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

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  • Prov 28:25-26
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  • Prov 15:27
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