Proverbs 11:29

Modern English Version

He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

Cross References

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me revolting among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. Our being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and slay me, and I will be destroyed, both I and my household.”

Proverbs 14:19

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

Proverbs 15:27

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

Ecclesiastes 5:16

And this also is a grave misery: As he entered, so will he leave; what benefit is there to the one who toils for the wind?

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no head and will yield no flour. If it were to yield, foreigners would 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 household. He is such a worthless man that one cannot speak to him.”

1 Samuel 25:3

The man’s name was Nabal and the name of his wife Abigail. She was a woman of good understanding and beautiful, but the man was harsh and evil in his actions and he was a Calebite.

1 Samuel 25:38

And about ten days after that, the Lord struck Nabal and he died.