Proverbs 11:29 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁹ The one who brings ruin on his household will inherit the wind, and a fool will be a slave to someone whose heart is wise.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: And the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind, and the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind; And the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Common English Bible

²⁹ Those who trouble their family will inherit the wind. The fool will be servant to the wise.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ Whoever troubles his own house will possess the winds. And whoever is foolish will serve the wise.

Proverbs 11:29 Cross References

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, ‘You have brought trouble on me,  making me odious to the inhabitants of the land,  the Canaanites and the Perizzites.  We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.’

Proverbs 14:19

The evil bow before those who are good, and the wicked, at the gates of the righteous.

Proverbs 15:27

The one who profits dishonestly  troubles his household, but the one who hates bribes will live.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This too is a sickening tragedy: exactly as he comes, so he will go. What does the one gain  who struggles for the wind?

Hosea 8:7

Indeed, they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. There is no standing corn; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it did, foreigners would swallow it up.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now consider carefully  what you should do, because there is certain to be trouble for our master and his entire family. He is such a worthless fool nobody can talk to him! ’

1 Samuel 25:3

The man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name, Abigail. The woman was intelligent and beautiful, but the man, a Calebite,  was harsh and evil in his dealings.

1 Samuel 25:38

About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal dead.