Proverbs 11:29

New International Version

Whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.

Cross References

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

Proverbs 14:19

Evildoers will bow down in the presence of the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

Proverbs 15:27

The greedy bring ruin to their households, but the one who hates bribes will live.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This too is a grievous evil: As everyone comes, so they depart, and what do they gain, since they toil for the wind?

Hosea 8:7

“They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.”

1 Samuel 25:3

His name was Nabal and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings—he was a Calebite.

1 Samuel 25:38

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