Proverbs 11:29 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

Proverbs 14:19

The evil bow before the good; And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

Proverbs 15:27

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house: But he that hateth gifts shall live.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboureth for the wind?

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing corn; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house: for he is such a son of Belial, that one cannot speak to him.

1 Samuel 25:3

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 countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

1 Samuel 25:38

And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.