Proverbs 11:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ Those who trouble their households will inherit wind, and the fool will be servant to the 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the winds: and the fool shall serve the wise.

Proverbs 11:29 Cross References

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”

Proverbs 14:19

The evil bow down before the good, the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

Proverbs 15:27

Those greedy for unjust gain make trouble for their households, but those who hate bribes will live.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This also is a grievous ill: just as they came, so shall they go, and what gain do they have from toiling for the wind?

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, foreigners would devour it.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now, therefore, know this and consider what you should do, for evil has been decided against our master and against all his house; he is so ill-natured that no one can speak to him.”

1 Samuel 25:3

Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife was Abigail. The woman was clever and beautiful, but the man was surly and mean; he was a Calebite.

1 Samuel 25:38

About ten days later the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.