Proverbs 11:29

World English Bible (2000)

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 5:16 : 16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
  • Prov 14:19 : 19 The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
  • Prov 15:27 : 27 He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
  • Hab 2:9-9 : 9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil! 10 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
  • Gen 34:30 : 30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
  • Josh 7:24-25 : 24 Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor. 25 Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you this day." All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
  • 1 Sam 25:3 : 3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful face: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
  • 1 Sam 25:17 : 17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him."
  • 1 Sam 25:38 : 38 It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.

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    28He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

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