Proverbs 11:29

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Those who trouble their households will inherit 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 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.