Proverbs 11:29 {30}
Good News Translation
Those who bring trouble on their families will have nothing at the end. Foolish people will always be servants to the wise.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who trouble their households will inherit wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.

Contemporary English Version
Fools who cause trouble in the family won't inherit a thing. They will end up as slaves of someone with good sense.

New American Bible
Those who trouble their household inherit the wind, and fools become slaves to the wise of heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The fruit of the just man is a tree of life: and he that gaineth souls is wise.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The fruit of the just man is a tree of life: and he that gaineth souls is wise.

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Genesis 34:30 And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house shall be destroyed.

Joshua 7:24,25 Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan, the son of Zare, and the silver, and the garment, and the golden rule, his sons also, and his daughters, his oxen, and asses, and sheep, the tent also, and all the goods: and brought them to the valley of Achor: . . .

1 Samuel 25:3,17,38 Now the name of the man was Nabal: and the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman: but her husband was churlish, and very bad and ill natured: and he was of the house of Caleb. . . .

Habakkuk 2:9,10 Woe to him that gathereth together an evil covetousness to his house, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he may be delivered out of the hand of evil. . . .

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Ecclesiastes 5:16 A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?

Hosea 8:7 For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.

Context
Dishonest Scales
28He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the winds: and the fool shall serve the wise. 29The fruit of the just man is a tree of life: and he that gaineth souls is wise.30If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner.…
Cross References
Proverbs 14:19
The evil shall fall down before the good: and the wicked before the gates of the just.

Proverbs 15:27
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house: but he that hateth bribes shall live. By mercy and faith sins are purged away: and by the fear of the Lord every one declineth from evil.

Ecclesiastes 5:16
A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?

Proverbs 11:28
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