New American Standard Bible 1995
Proverbs 11:29
29He who 1troubles his own house will 2inherit wind, And 3the foolish will be servant to the wisehearted.
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
27He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, But he who seeks evil, evil will come to him. 28He who trusts in his riches will fall, But the righteous will flourish like the green leaf. He who troubles his own house will inherit wind, And the foolish will be servant to the wisehearted. 30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who is wise wins souls. 31If the righteous will be rewarded in the earth, How much more the wicked and the sinner!
Read all of Proverbs 11Proverbs 11:29 word by word
עוֹכֵ֣ר בֵּ֭יתוֹ יִנְחַל־ר֑וּחַ וְעֶ֥בֶד אֱ֝וִ֗יל לַחֲכַם־לֵֽב׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 11:29
- Genesis 34:30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and my men being few in number, they will gather together against me and attack me and I will be destroyed, I and my household.”
- Joshua 7:24Then Joshua and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the mantle, the bar of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent and all that belonged to him; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
- 1 Samuel 25:3(now the man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. And the woman was intelligent and beautiful in appearance, but the man was harsh and evil in his dealings, and he was a Calebite),
- Habakkuk 2:9“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house To put his nest on high, To be delivered from the hand of calamity!
- Ecclesiastes 5:16This also is a grievous evil--exactly as a man is born, thus will he die. So what is the advantage to him who toils for the wind?
- Hosea 8:7For they sow the wind And they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; It yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.
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
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Notes
- 1. Proverbs 11:29 Prov 15:27 ↩
- 2. Proverbs 11:29 Eccl 5:16 ↩
- 3. Proverbs 11:29 Prov 14:19 ↩
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
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