Proverbs 11:29

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

Cross References

Genesis 34:30

Ya`akov said to Shim`on and Levi, *You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Kena`anim and the Perizzi. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.*

Proverbs 14:19

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

Proverbs 15:27

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

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?

Hosea 8:7

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.

1 Samuel 25:17

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 Samuel 25:3

Now the name of the man was Naval; and the name of his wife Avigayil; 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 Kalev.

1 Samuel 25:38

It happened about ten days after, that the LORD struck Naval, so that he died.