Proverbs 11:29 - English Standard Version 2016

²⁹ Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will 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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me stink 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

Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils 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 flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such a worthless man 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. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite.

1 Samuel 25:38

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