Proverbs 11:29

Proverbs 11:29 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
• New International Version (NIV)Whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
• New King James Version (NKJV)He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind, And the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

Context of Proverbs 11:29

27If you try to do good things, people will respect you. But if you want evil things to happen, they will happen to you! 28If somebody trusts his riches to keep him safe, he will fall like a leaf that falls from a tree. But a righteous person will grow strong, like a fresh green leaf. Anyone who causes trouble for his family will not receive any good thing from them. A foolish person like that will become the servant of a wise person. 30The good things that a righteous person does bring life. A person who saves people's lives shows that he is wise. 31Righteous people receive what they deserve, here on this earth. So you can be sure that cruel and wicked people will receive their punishment.

Proverbs 11:29 word by word

עוֹכֵ֣ר בֵּ֭יתוֹ יִנְחַל־ר֑וּחַ וְעֶ֥בֶד אֱ֝וִ֗יל לַחֲכַם־לֵֽב׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• He that troublethעָכַר‛âkar · to troubleH5916
• his own houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: householdH1004
• shall inheritנָחַלnâchal · to inheritH5157
• the windרוּחַrûach · spirit: breathH7307
• and the foolאֱוִיל'ĕvîyl · fool(ish)H191
• servantעֶ֫בֶד‛ebed · servant/slaveH5650
• to the wiseחָכָםchâkâm · wiseH2450
• of heartלֵבlêb · heartH3820

Cross-references for Proverbs 11:29

• Genesis 34:30When they returned to Jacob, he said to Simeon and Levi, ‘You have brought bad trouble to me! The people who live in this land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, will hate me. I will be like a bad smell to them. We do not have many men to fight for us. If the Perizzites and Canaanites join together and they attack us, they will destroy our whole family!’
• Joshua 7:24Then Joshua and all the people took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver coins, the coat, and the heavy piece of gold. They also took his sons, his daughters, and his cows, sheep and donkeys. They took all his things to Achor valley.
• Habakkuk 2:9It will be very bad for anyone who cheats other people so that he can make his family rich. He thinks that his riches will make him safe. He thinks that he is too high up for any trouble to reach him.
• Ecclesiastes 5:16This is also a terrible thing to happen. People leave this earth with nothing, as they came into it with nothing. All their hard work has been useless, like someone who tries to catch the wind.
• Hosea 8:7Like a farmer, Israel's people have planted the wind. So their harvest will be a strong storm! The crops that grow in their fields will not have any grain. So they will not be able to make flour for bread. Even if the crops do make some grain, foreign people will take it for themselves.

Commentaries on Proverbs 11:29

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 29Shalt inherit the wind - He who dissipates his property by riotous living, shall be as unsatisfied as he who attempts to feed upon air.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 29He that troubleth … - The temper, nigardly and worrying, which leads a man to make those about him miserable, and proves but bad economy in the end.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 29Verse 29 He that brings trouble upon himself and his family, by carelessness, or by wickedness, shall be unable to keep and enjoy what he gets, as a man is unable to hold the wind, or to satisfy himself with it.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 24-3124-31. The scope of the whole is a comment on Pr 11:23. Thus liberality, by God's blessing, secures increase, while penuriousness, instead of expected gain, procures poverty.Read the comment

Topics related to Proverbs 11:29

• Heart
• Prudence
• Sin

In the dictionaries

• Poetry
• Profit
• Pursue
• Scatter
• Secret
• Smart
• Suretiship
• Surety
• Void
• Achan

Commentaries on Proverbs 11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings